Gabriel Attal announces ‘major consultation’ with the public on France’s energy and climate strategy

A “great consultation” under the auspices of the National Commission of Public Debate (CNDP) will be launched on France’s energy and climate strategy, Matignon announced on Friday.

“Under the auspices of the CNDP (…) a major consultation will be launched that will cover all two plans: the PPE (multi-annual energy program) and the SNBC (national low-carbon strategy),” Matignon told the press, the day after the meeting during which the Prime Minister Gabriel Attal made this statement to an environmental NGO.

The consultations will focus, on the one hand, on the PPE, France’s energy roadmap (which includes energy, nuclear and renewable, by 2030 and 2035), and on the SNBC, a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. “The direction will be sent shortly,” Matignon said, without providing details about the schedule or the organization.

“What we are now waiting for is political support for this consultation from the Prime Minister and a commitment to take it into account in the outcome documents,” transition manager Anne Bringo told AFP. Net.

“Find a new consensus”

The energy bill, announced in the Council of Ministers in early February, was eventually cut off from energy production and carbon reduction targets in January before disappearing from the radar amid the government’s difficulties in forming a parliamentary majority on energy issues .

However, these guidelines emerged in a 102-page government document published in the fall, the French Strategy for Energy and Climate (SFEC), the conclusions of which are largely based on work carried out over several months by a wide range of stakeholders (associations, industry, energy companies, etc.).

To explain this delay in the programmatic aspect of the law, Bersi emphasized the need to “complete the consultation work on our energy and climate strategy” and “find a new consensus.”

Today the bill has been postponed to an unknown date; in any case, it will not appear on the parliamentary agenda until the summer.

Following its publication, the first online consultation on SFEK was organized. His report has not been published.