The Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, proposes to increase taxation on business aviation from 2023. His colleague in ecology, Christophe Béchu, returns the proposals in the fall. Matignon wants a “global plan” which will mark the spirits.
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It was enough for the laughter of Kylian Mbappé on PSG private jet trips on September 5, for the case to take a very serious turn. Until then, the idea of Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate in charge of Transport, to regulate business aviation for ecological purposes had triggered smiles under CAPE, including within the executive. At the end of August, Emmanuel Macron himself asked his ministers not to “offer anything and anything”, nor to give in to “temptations of demagoguery”.
The government is now advancing on a crest line. On August 30, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Energy Transition, said on France Inter that “This is clearly a limited problem in terms of climate impact, and therefore that environmentalists make a fight show how much they are next to the plate.” Private jets certainly weigh only 1.6 % of air traffic emissions in France, or 400,000 tonnes of co 2 on almost 24 million. But the passenger of a small luxury plane emits four times more than co 2 than a classic line passenger.
A “two measurement” flammable, while the two heads of the executive asked the French to adjust their heating to 19 degrees this winter. On September 6, M me pannier-runacher changed tone, judging on CNews that” the reaction of Christophe Galtier and Kylian Mbappé shows how far they are far from the challenges of global warming “. “Everyone must take their share,” concluded the minister.
In parallel, the draft jet regulation is making its way. Very early September, MEP Renew Pascal Canfin pleaded the cause of the Minister of Transport to Elisabeth Borne, in Matignon. “You have to switch to zero emission jets by 2030,” defended the president of the Environment Commission of the European Parliament. “We must reconcile the policy of attractiveness and a policy of justice which does not suggest that there is climate separatism and that for ultra -ties, it is open bar.”
“we can be rich and sober “
For his part, Clément Beaune transmitted his proposals to Matignon to regulate “business aviation activity in all its forms” and “accelerate its transition”. According to this project, which Le Monde was aware of, he too is on the objective of decarbonation of jets thanks to lasting fuels, in a spirit of “voluntary sobriety” which would be based on the Dassault group, leader of European jets. An idea that finds the attentive ear of Elisabeth Borne, according to whom “we can be rich and sober”. He also wishes to make it compulsory, for users, the public declaration of emissions of co 2 and their decrease trajectory.
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