The Center-Val de Loire region will proclaim officially this Friday morning “the climatic and social state of emergency”. A solemn declaration, followed by a vote from the regional advisers. Because beyond the symbol, the Region will make 26 commitments, which will then be broken down into “a regional transition plan“, to fight, on its own scale, both against climate change and social inequalities. And the Region promises something concrete.
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Declaring this state of emergency was in fact a promise from François Bonneau to seal the alliance with environmentalists between the two rounds of the regional elections last June. But unlike the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region which, in 2019, had declared a “state of climate emergency”, the PS president of the Center-Val de Loire region wishes to associate the 2 pillars: climate and social.
“One does not go without the other, he explains. We can see that global warming imposes this urgency, we can not wait any longer. But if mobilizing in relation to the planet is unbearable for people who are in great social precariousness, we will not succeed, so we have to carry both things together, whether it be a red or a green thread, we can take it as we want – a continuous thread in our action throughout this mandate.“
26 commitments to be concretely translated
Through this declaration, the Region is therefore making 26 commitments to be kept over the next few years. Among these commitments: the fourfold increase in the regional agricultural area devoted to organic, a fleet of fossil fuel-free buses by 2028 for the Rémi network, free access to this Rémi network for 18-25 year olds, business relocation aid or the goal of reaching 100% local in high school canteens.
Other communities or institutions have already declared this state of emergency, in various forms: the cities of Lyon, Strasbourg, Barcelona, Cologne, New York or even Calgary in Canada, the New Aquitaine region, therefore, but also the Parliament. European.
