2007The vote in the Assembly received unanimously

Footprint of the parliamentary calendar and European programme too responsible for recent months Jean-Louis Borloo and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet... Review of Bill Grenelle environment advance at the speed of a snail. Department of ecology, energy and sustainable development, it displays the greatest optimism, stressing that the measures taken under the Finance Act will allow the French to the benefit of the first loans at zero rate in February or March (read below). Arbitration was also awarded to the President of the Republic for experimenting with one or two environmental incentives in the first months of 2009. "Several files are in the study," it said.

Nevertheless, at the latest, the debate at first reading in the Senate Bill program Grenelle of the environment was pushed back to the... 13 February. This text that serious in marble the objectives for combating climate change, preservation of biodiversity and environmental responsibility has been adopted on 21 October last by members. The cranky recall that the six thematic working groups establishing dialogue between trade unions, environmental organizations, representatives of the State, local communities and employers had been formed in the summer... 2007!

The vote in the Assembly received unanimously. At the hearing of the Minister of ecology in the Senate last December, the rapporteur UMP Bruno Sido, Senator of Haute-Marne, stated that, "subject to differences of detail which some may also be subject to adjustments", its interlocutors "express their agreement on the general scheme of the Bill."

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However, the evolution in the situation should weigh on discussions. Some argue for an accelerated implementation of the measures in a greening of the stimulus package, but the extent of the amounts involved could to push others to request a prolongation of the time.

Among the thorny issues, reduction of energy consumption of buildings and the modulation of the standard of 50 kilowatt hours per square meter and year on each of the energy systems-related carbon dioxide emissions will be again discussed. The rapporteur wishes that the parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological choices (Opecst) is responsible for a report on this issue. Associations for the defence of the environment refuse any action to ease the standards required for housing heated with electricity, while electricians argue that compared less of CO2 they emit.

Senators should also consider the consequences of the round table on the local budget. The text provides that they will be "encouraged" to put their buildings to the new energy efficiency standards with aims to reduce consumption of at least 40 and 50 greenhouse gas emissions within a period of eight years.

Territorial climate energy plans

The Government says that these investments will be offset by the energy savings, and that it is sufficient to establish public-private partnerships. By 2012, "territorial climate energy plans" will be developed. The idea of to vary the amount of the endowments of functioning of local communities by the significance of their environmental efforts to encourage those most recently mentioned.

The French will have to wait a few more months to find out how these objectives will be actually implemented. The Bill said "Grenelle 2" of "environmental transition", which has more than 100 articles considered by the Council of State. It should be presented by the Council of Ministers the second or third week of January... for a final adoption next fall.