The climate bill is presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. A text resulting from the citizens’ convention composed of 150 French people drawn at random. The goal is to reduce France’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. Criticized by associations and NGOs who accuse the government of not going far enough. The elected official in Marseille’s ecological transition, Sébastien Barles also said he was disappointed.
The account is not there. The ambition of the law is not sufficient. The method of this law is incentive only. It does not meet this need for a fundamental break – Sébastien Barles
the text takes up six major themes: consuming, producing and working, moving around, finding accommodation, eating, and strengthening legal protection of the environment. With the concrete end of the rental of thermal strainers in 2028, ban on advertising for fossil fuels, ban on domestic flights if there is an alternative by train in less than 2h30.
Marseille declares a state of climate emergency
In city council this Monday, the City of Marseille declared climate emergency. This means that it decides to take the climate issue into account in all its decisions and projects and to place its policies and actions under the aegis of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 by the United Nations. More concretely Sébastien Barles hopes for changes quickly:“As soon as we renovate the school housing, we will ensure that there are no more heat sieves. We will make housing that is efficient in the face of the climate challenge”.
Cruise ships in the sights
Environmental policy also involves another way of doing tourism. Mayor Benoit Payan spoke not long ago about cruise ships from “garbage cans from the seas that dump tons of nitrogen oxide on the people of Marseille”. Sébastien Barles believes that today we must invent another way of doing tourism in Marseille. We can no longer tolerate these sea monsters which essentially have negative effects on the territory and very few positive effects with this pollution generated which is considerable. We must invent a new form of tourism by promoting all our assets (urban walks, we could promote our diving spots in summer).
We must reduce the race to gigantism at the level of cruise ships
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