Presidential 2022: Climate candidates’ projects “are not up to”, according to Shift Project

In a study published Monday, March 28, the think tank estimates that no candidate for the Elysee proposes a “systemic approach”, articulated, precise and encrypted, necessary for the ecological and energy transition.

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No presidential election candidate proposes a “strategy to the danger of the climate crisis” and risks that weigh on our energy supplies. This is the Severe Conclusion drawn by the Reflection Group The Shift Project, published Monday, March 28, which believes that no supreme function exposes a “systemic approach”, articulated, precise and encrypted, necessary for the transition ecological and energy. Think Tank, however, recognizes that Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology-les Greens), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (France unsuitable) and Valérie Pécresse (Republicans) have a more extensive and coherent project than others.

This association chaired by Consultant Jean-Marc Jancovici asked all candidates to describe, in a few pages, their main proposals for decarbonating France during the next five-year, crucial for climate action. She then screened the answers, with as a prism of analysis his work plan of transformation of the French economy (ed. Odile Jacob, 272 p., 11.90 euros), who draws a France functioning without fossil fuels – Via notably sobriety, nuclear energy but also renewable – and whose trajectory would achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. Ten candidates lent themselves to the exercise; Only the president Emmanuel Macron and the candidate of resistons! Jean Lassalle did not answer.

A general progress on the diagnosis side

The Shift Project has chosen to rely on the only texts sent by the candidates, without taking into account their programs or their speeches. “What interests us is not to have the different pieces of the puzzle, but how candidates assemble them to start an emissions”, justifies Matthieu Auzanneau, the Executive Director of the Association, which specifies Have checked if there is no “major offset” between letters and programs. “The Emmanuel Macron program indicates that it is committed to plan the ecological transition, but there is no strategy,” says the expert.

The reflection group observes “A general progress of the political class on the diagnosis”, compared to 2017. “There is a consensus that we must come out of the fossil energies and arrive at carbon neutrality,” says Matthew. Auzanneau, citing the exception of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Standing France).

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