Elisabeth Borne signed, Monday, in Marseille, an experimental protocol aimed at bringing the aid closer to the aid to ecological transition projects.
by Gilles Rof (Marseille, correspondent )
“The ecological transition will be local or will not be!” traveling to Marseille for the fourth convention of mayors of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region (PACA), Elisabeth Borne formalized, Monday, November 14, Launch of an experiment aimed at decentralizing ecological planning actions, of which President Emmanuel Macron entrusted him with the charge. “I wanted to seize a outstretched hand,” explained the Prime Minister, evoking the proposal launched by the President of the Regional Council, Renaud Muselier (DVD), to test on its territory five million inhabitants a device and a methodology To “accelerate the ecological transition”. An offer formulated after the speech of M bounded to the congress of France regions, on September 16, calling on the latter to become “experimental territories in their areas of competence”.
For the State as for its regional partner, the system, which is part of the government program “France Nation Verte”, must provide “radical responses to the urgency of the situation”. “We have to do more in eight years than what we have done in thirty-two years,” said Elisabeth Borne in front of more than 750 mayors and local elected officials.
Concretely, the agreement provides for the selection of a joint program of shares by April 2023 by a steering committee co -chaired by the regional prefect and the president of the regional council. Eight operational priorities are defined: the decarbonation of the industry and the means of transport, the production of renewable energy with an acceleration of wind at sea, the renovation of buildings, the protection of forests, the reduction of port pollution and that of the artificialization of land. Finally, highly sensitive subject in the region, the preservation of water resources.
In this area, State and Region plan to “lift the brakes on the reuse of treated wastewater” and to work jointly in the transformation of local irrigation networks, essential to agriculture. A strengthening of investments from the Provence Canal, which manages the distribution of Water from the Verdon, in exchange for an extension of its duration of the concession, will also be studied.
“Ideal laboratory of ecological planning”
To finance this multifaceted agreement, the two partners mobilize their own funds, but also count on European subsidies, of which the region is the authorizing officer on its territory. The green background of acceleration of the ecological transition, with 2 billion euros, will be requested. In Marseille, Elisabeth Borne, who was accompanied by the Minister of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, announced that the State increased by 100 million euros in 2023 the annual funding of the water agencies (2.2 billion of euros currently) “in order to improve the performance of irrigation networks”. The Rhône-Méditerranée-Corse agency will benefit from 40 % of this sum.
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