After a summer marked by extreme climatic events, the Prime Minister proposes, in an interview with the “Parisian”, to use this fund to “energetically renovate public buildings” or to bring back “nature in cities “.
Le Monde with AFP
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced, on Saturday August 27, the release of a “green fund” with 1.5 billion euros intended for local authorities to help them fight against climate change, In an interview with Parisian .
Elisabeth Borne suggests using this fund for “rehabilitation of wasteland to limit urban sprawl”, to renovate “public buildings” like certain schools “energetically, to bring” nature in cities “or Still install “relay car parks” at their entrance.
taxation of “super profits” envisaged
The Prime Minister also said that he does not “close the door” to a taxation of “super profits” of companies, while preferring that the company which can “lower prices for the consumer and gives power to ‘Purchase to its employees “.
“No one would understand that companies give off exceptional profits even though the French can be worried about their purchasing power,” added Elisabeth Borne who must express himself on Monday in front of the Medef, when prices are soaring All over the world due in particular to the war in Ukraine.
Elisabeth Borne also promised that the executive was not going to “let the energy prices explode”, and would absorb “the increases” while the prices exploded on the wholesale markets. “We will keep devices to amortize increases in energy prices. And we will make specific arrangements to support the most fragile,” assured the Prime Minister.