For the first time, the challenges of the ecological transition are imposed on the government. But the concrete implementation of “ecological planning” is long overdue.
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Determination and humility. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne presented her “ecological planning method on Friday October 21. “We have to initiate radical changes in our ways of producing, consuming, acting,” hammered the tenant of Matignon, while stressing that “the ecological transition is no miracle solution”. Enant attempt to tackle the subject, or true turning point?
“What we have seen for the moment are photos. But the film script is missing, a shared narrative. We set ambitious, and necessary long -term lenses, and when, five years after , we have not reached them, we refix new ones, “said Benoît Leguet, Director General of the Economic Institute for the Climate (i4ce), a think tank on the economy of the ecological transition founded by the Caisse des Dépôts and the French Development Agency. The subject does not concern only France: the European Commission climate plan last year set a 55 % reduction objective of greenhouse gas emissions (compared to 1990) “when we already knew Not exactly how to reach 40 %, “points out Mr. Leguet.
The multiplication of crises in recent years does not help politicians to project themselves towards this horizon. “We have an illusion of a possible planning in the face of the energy crisis. Instead, we have a sum of actions, not necessarily coordinated, and whose state is trying to manage on -board effects”, underlines Xavier Ragot, President of the French Observatory for Economic Conditions.
Beyond that, “Inscribing climatic issues in our public policies is a considerable challenge, because it is a question of worrying about future generations, which do not vote”, sums up Jean Pisani-Ferry, professor of economics At Sciences Po and Emmanuel Macron’s advisor during the 2017 campaign. According to him, climatic disasters of the last summers (heat waves, fires, etc.) have however changed the perception of the French: the latter no longer wonder about what will happen to future generations, but to themselves and their children.
Long list of plans
This entry into the political atmosphere of climatic concerns has not escaped the rulers. “It is the first time in the history of the country that the Prime Minister has been responsible for ecological planning,” recalls Matignon. But for what concrete effects?
The list of climate plans with which France has already been dizzy: national low carbon strategy, national plan for adaptation to climate change, and soon climate energy programming law … The initiatives are linked, without music overall. “The national low carbon strategy is developed within the Ministry of Ecological Transition, but absolutely not shared by the Government. We remain at a level of technos,” says Leguet. “Until now, climatic questions have not been in the horizon of administrations. They were sectoral subjects, carried by one or two ministries,” confirms Mr. Pisani-Ferry.
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