Incitations rather than constraints, sprinkled with common sense measures. Without turtleneck or down jacket, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne presented, Thursday, October 6 in Paris, the energy sobriety plan announced by Emmanuel Macron this summer. On the menu, among other things, the 15 % increase in the flat -rate of telework in the public service, the reduction of heating and lighting in public places, sports and culture rooms or the increase in Energy renovation aid. With the aim of reducing total energy consumption in France by 10 % within two years.
“Sobriety is a pillar of our ecological planning,” said Elisabeth Borne. Before adding: “And yet, a few months ago, few of us were familiar with this concept. But with the war, with the urgency of the energy transition then the call of the President of the Republic, the Sobriety has established itself as a necessity. “The government’s heading has however circumscribed and demine the subject, indicating that this did not mean” producing less and choosing the decrease “.
first movements of Reduction
The expression appears for the first time in Le Monde on September 30, 1979, far from any ecological consideration. The international context was already tense at the time, against the backdrop of Iranian revolution and second oil shock. The evening daily newspaper then notes in “one”, on the sidelines of a Franco-German summit in Bonn, that “the last meeting, in Paris, of the energy ministers seems to have reassured France on West German loyalty to the Energy sobriety commitments made to the European Council of Strasbourg “. In France, we have no oil, but we have ideas.
On October 16, 1980, Le Monde returned to a series of measures presented in the Council of Ministers, aimed at “reducing energy consumption by 15 % in the public sector by 1985”. Thanks to investments in public buildings, schools, swimming pools and gymnasiums. “Respect for a temperature of 19 degrees in offices, reduction of the duration of the heating campaign, control of the consumption of fuel of public vehicles, will complete this image of energy sobriety that the public authorities want to give,” details the newspaper .
In the mid -1980s, with the fall in the price of a barrel, the expression disappeared, until 1997. The signing of the Kyoto protocol on December 11, 1997, aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases UN member countries, helps to bring it out again. With, all the same, a certain … sobriety, since we only lists five occurrences between November 27, 1997 and March 20, 2004. At the end of 1997, Dominique Voynet, Minister of Planning of the Environment and the Environment, launches a “national plan to combat the greenhouse effect”, allowing to save energy in transport, building or industry.
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