In an interview at the “point”, the Prime Minister defends an “radical” ecological transition, but which must not put “the most fragile in difficulty”.
Le Monde
Environmental protection, okay, but never in pain. In a Maintenance at point Published Thursday, June 2, Elisabeth Borne recalls the executive line of conduct in terms of ecological transition. “We will not make ecology against the economy, says the Prime Minister, responsible for ecological planning, but we must transform our economic model.” And if it aims a “radical transformation of our modes of production, displacement, of accommodation, our way of feeding “, it should never be done at the expense of the” most fragile “, especially in terms of energy.
The Prime Minister excludes in particular to increase “green taxation”, intended to encourage the French to modify their behavior. “We were able to measure in the previous five-year term that to increase the environmental taxation had not advanced the ecological transition, so it was not the right method,” she said. The said “method” had notably provoked, in 2018, the movement of “yellow vests”, born from the will of the executive to increase the internal consumption tax on energy products (TICPE), rise to which the government had finished By giving up.
To work on the “two strong priorities” that are “emerging fossil fuels and fighting the collapse of biodiversity”, M bounds rather other measures, as allow “Each Frenchman access to an electric vehicle as part of a long -term rental for a monthly amount of less than 100 euros”. She assures that in the first term of Emmanuel Macron a million French people changed their vehicle thanks to the conversion bonus, and stresses that her government carries “an ecology of solutions by helping, for example, 700,000 French to renovate their Housing thanks to Maprimerénov ‘”.
” pragmatism “
“When we say that we no longer want fuel oil boilers, we must be able to offer an affordable financial heating system and which meets the French comfort objectives”, maintains the Prime Minister, who also recognizes the ‘Importance of “lowering consumption” and leading to a “balanced mix between nuclear and renewable energies”.
To fight against climate change, Elisabeth Borne highlights a “very ambitious policy for our oceans and our forests, essential in the future for the capture of the co 2 “, as well as the Fight “against imported pollution, those that are generated by the products consumed on our territory”.
While environmental defenders criticized the appointment to the government of ministers without real ecological background – Amélie de Montchalin, from the public service to the ecological transition, and Agnès Pannier -Runacher, passed from the industry to The energy transition -, Elisabeth Borne denounces in return “the ecology of slogan or proclamation”. For her, which claims “pragmatism”, “ecology is no longer the policy of some whistleblowers, it is at the heart of our public policies”. On the repeated condition not to “put in difficulty our fellow citizens or the economic sectors”.