Despite the ecological “radicalism” claimed by Elisabeth Borne, disruptive measures have been abandoned in the state sobriety plan announced Thursday.
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“He is cool, right?” In the salons of the ministries and the Elysée, where heating must not exceed 19 degrees, this word of reception now holds the place of demonstration that the State applies to himself what he professes. While at the start of the week revelations on judicial affairs touched the executive, the presidential entourage even valued Emmanuel Macron’s turtleneck as a guarantee of modernity. Is exemplary now, in terms of sobriety? In the plan presented by Elisabeth Borne, Thursday, October 6, a chapter entitled “The exemplary State” thus underlines that “the State makes every effort to reduce its energy consumption by 10 %”.
Except that, according to our information, several binding measures reassembled in Matignon have been dismissed from the final plan. The first of them appeared in the program of the Head of State, then in the declaration of general policy of the Prime Minister: to make “” compulsory “the indexing of the remuneration of the leaders of large companies on respect for their objectives environmental. A positive impact measurement at the ecological level, had gauged the Montaigne Institute, since it would promote investments in areas favorable to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
In a working document that Le Monde has obtained, the Ministry of Public Transformation and Function considers that it would be relevant to apply the same measure to senior state executives. “It would be logical that the State applies this principle to its leaders for whom it is relevant,” even underlined the services for Antoine Pellion, the secretary general for ecological planning. The idea, for this time, pericked.
replace the car fleet
Another proposal consisted in making days of telework for public officials, in order to close the buildings. The idea, again, was ruled out in favor of an encouragement measure. It remains, however, in the pipes according to the energy savings that will be made. The reduction of office surfaces in ministries and administrations, too complex to be implemented this fall, has not been retained either but should reappear in the environmental planning plan, being drawn up.
Finally, members of the government had recommended replacing the state fleet of the State with electric vehicles. With the embarrassment of the embarrassment, at the end of July, by the fifteen cars with a purring engine in the courtyard of the Elysée, and offered at the sight of the cameras, long before the Head of State was alarmed of the “end of abundance” of fossil energy resources. “From the moment when we say to the French: the State, the ministries will show the example, it will require changing a certain number of behaviors,” conceded the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran.
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