2023-06-23 11:00:23
The objective of ecological planning, the general framework of which was presented at the end of May by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, is to rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, while anticipating the consequences of climate change. To be effective, this planning will have to be implemented in the territories according to their specificities, and with the local authorities according to their skills. There seems to be consensus on the territorialization of planning, which might be summed up by the maxim “think global, act local”. But three major difficulties must be overcome.
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Firstly, it is a question of ensuring an ambitious declension of the national orientations in the territorial strategies. According to Ademe, of the 753 intermunicipalities that must produce a territorial climate-air-energy plan (PCAET), 52% had adopted it in April. In addition, the Assembly of French Communities showed, in 2020, that only one in ten PCAETs has an objective equal to or more ambitious than the national objective of carbon neutrality in 2050, i.e. an 82% reduction in emissions in 2050. compared to 2015. This can be explained in part by a lack of training for local elected officials in environmental issues and by limited public engineering capacities, particularly in small communities.
Secondly, the operational implementation of territorial strategies comes up once morest the lack of a territorial governance body dealing operationally and collectively with environmental issues, except for certain themes such as water management through basin committees. At the regional level, the territorial conferences for public action are interesting bodies, but practice has shown that their proper functioning depends on the history and desires for cooperation specific to each region.
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Third, the mobilization of local finance is still insufficient to accelerate investments. All sectors combined, they will have to reach 66 billion euros per year by 2030 to make a success of the climate transition, according to the report by Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz. If the distribution of this volume of investment between private and public actors is not yet decided, it is certain that local authorities will have a role to play because they carry 55% of all public investment. According to the Institute of Economics for Climate, local authorities will have to increase annual investments in favor of the climate from the current 5.5 billion to 12 billion per year.
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