The new movement has a unique and precise claim: that the government undertakes to ensure the global and efficient renovation of the housing park by 2040.
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The image went around the world: that of a young woman interrupting the semi-final men of Roland-Garros, on June 3, by attaching his neck to the net of the tennis course. Immobile against the public and nearly 2 million viewers, she opposes the huae and whistles a message written in English on her t-shirt: “We have 1,028 days left.” She will be evacuated after fifteen minutes, before to spend forty hours in police custody. Alizée (the first name has been changed), 23, campaigns for the last renovation campaign, which punch actions in order to alert the climate crisis.
“It was an action of despair. I wanted to look away from the spectators towards reality: we will all die if we do not act in the face of the climate crisis, she explains. More tennis in ten years. “His group, launched in February, calls on citizens to” enter civil resistance “by leading non -violent disturbances, in order to” force to act “the government. After having twice blocked the Parisian ring road and then the A13 in April, these activists launch a second wave of actions in June. They had to interrupt the circulation of a large axis of the capital on Saturday.
The activists advance a unique and precise claim: that the government immediately undertakes to ensure the global and efficient renovation of the housing stock by 2040, with a “simple and progressive financing system” taking charge of the integrality of the work for the most modest owners. “We take up one of the flagship measures of the Citizen Citizen Convention, which the government has not applied,” said Sasha, a 22 -year -old Parisian (who, like the other cited activists, requires anonymity), who works full -time for the countryside. Of the 750,000 renovations put forward by the government in 2021, less than 60,000 have been global , therefore effective.
“a winning request”
The renovation of buildings is crucial for the climate – these represent 18 % of greenhouse gas emissions and 45 % of energy consumption in France. “We wanted to have a winning request, to create a previous one and restore hope,” says Sasha. Far from demobilizing by its arduous side, this subject is precisely at the origin of the attraction of new activists. “There is an end, we can see our actions materialize,” explains Alizée who, like many members of the last renovation, had never been campaigned before the climate before.
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