It is both an observation and a list of recommendations. While the ecological transition France is going through a very complicated period, the Institute of Climate Economics (I4CE) publishes a detailed note on the budget cuts that this sector already suffered in February 2024 (around 2 billion euros), while projecting the next blows provided for in the finance bill (PLF).
In front of a “Significantly deteriorated budget situation”The experts of this think tank advise the new government on a series of measures to try to mitigate the consequences of these cuts on France’s climate trajectories. “When an expense falls, we must make sure we have other policies – to maintain or strengthen – that can take over”We read in this document that the world He was able to consult.
Tailor-made, the I4CE thus introduces several complementary ideas. Regarding the MaPrimeRénov’ system, which lost around one billion euros in February and will be affected by new cuts in the next PLF, the Institute recommends, for example, continuing with the strategy of global renewals but also tightening the rules on the installation of new gas. heaters, authorize them only when they represent the solution “the most economically and technically relevant”. The only way to avoid “The heat pump market collapses”.
Regarding the electrification of vehicles, a crucial sector that should lose another 500 million euros if the ceiling letter of the Ministry of Ecological Transition in the PLF is not modified, the I4CE proposes, among other things, to strengthen the regulations on the greening of vehicles. fleets of large companies, increase the penalty on automobiles, tighten the income conditions to access the ecological bonus for new electric vehicles, “This mainly benefits rich households, with a strong risk of unexpected effect”. A stone in the Elysée garden, which from 2022 fears that an increase in restrictions will provoke too strong reactions in public opinion.
“Social tenancy”
When exploring different sectors, in particular agriculture or adaptation to climate change, experts fear the risk of abandoning the most modest and most penalized categories. through the transition. “We find it necessary to prioritize budget spending towards aid and infrastructure that most benefits the middle and working classes”we can read. Although it is still too early to know what the Government’s true desire to act in these areas will be, there is no shortage of avenues.
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