Transport, building, agriculture, industry, heating… Elisabeth Borne unveiled this Monday afternoon an enhanced plan to reduce France’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, in line with the new objectives set by the European Union towards carbon neutrality.
Households, businesses, the State and local authorities will be concerned, but the government is seeking a form of “equity” in terms of the immense efforts to be made, however, underlines a source at Matignon: “the small ones do a little, the big ones do a lot and everyone does its part”. 20 minutes comes back to the major announcements of this plan, sector by sector.
Transport and accommodation
This is the largest project identified by the government. Transport, the leading source of emissions in France (around a third of the total), and housing (18% of emissions, residential and tertiary combined) have the greatest margins for progress.
The State is counting in particular on the electrification of cars and carpooling, a significant source of carbon savings according to the government, but also on an effort on logistics in a context of boom in home deliveries. In housing, he is counting on efficient renovation and changing heating methods. In agriculture, there is talk of gains on livestock and nitrogen fertilizers.
Energy
What future for gas boilers? The plan expects a substantial saving of 8 million tonnes of CO2 per year from their decline in housing, but the decision is not made on how. We can increase the aid or go through the regulatory route, we sum up to Matignon: “two possibilities, not the same ease of execution and acceptability. It’s this kind of thing that we want to continue to discuss well so that in the end it works well”.
Faced with these future challenges, the government does not provide figures. But on the same day the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry estimated, in a report submitted to the Prime Minister, at 25 to 34 billion euros the annual public investment by 2030.