2023-12-11 15:39:00
Emmanuel Macron pleaded Monday in Toulouse for an “acceleration” of his France 2030 plan, so that investments for innovation go “faster and stronger”. The president, who took stock on the Airbus website of this program launched two years ago, also promised “very concrete” government measures, “from the start of next year” in favor of a ” drastic simplification”, a “hyper simplification” for companies “in all areas”.
The main information to remember:
– Emmanuel Macron wants investments in innovation to go “faster and stronger”
– The Head of State announces a priority for nuclear fusion
– CO2 capture will allow France to reduce its unavoidable industrial emissions by 10% by 2030, according to the president
– France will support the development of a “cargo spaceship”, announces Emmanuel Macron
Simplification of standards
“Support entrepreneurs much more, crush the accumulation of procedures”, “go to the end of what we have started to do but which is insufficient”, he listed, while the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire announced that he wanted to present a Pacte II bill at the beginning of 2024 to enable the continued simplification of standards that hinder the growth of businesses, particularly the smallest and medium-sized.
The Head of State praised the results of his economic policy carried out for six years around “three interdependent objectives”: “sovereignty”, “full employment” and “decarbonization”. He estimated that France 2030 and its 54 billion euros in planned credits were starting to bear fruit.
But “we are not there at all”, “because things are going much, much faster” in China and the United States, he insisted. “We must continue to accelerate”, “go faster and stronger”, he said several times, referring to innovation, particularly in terms of energy. The “key” is “acceleration, acceleration, acceleration”, he insisted.
Priority to nuclear fusion and CO2 capture
Furthermore, President Emmanuel Macron announced a priority given to nuclear fusion, superconducting magnets and CO2 capture, disruptive technologies as part of the second part of the France 2030 investment plan. Nuclear fusion and superconducting magnets, “these are two verticals that we are going to encourage a lot with France 2030 and on which I want us to redouble our efforts” on the issues of storage and new forms of energy, declared the president.
He also mentioned an acceleration of investments in CO2 capture which “will allow France to reduce its unavoidable industrial emissions by 10% by 2030”.
Paris will support the development of a “cargo spacecraft”
France will support the development of a cargo spacecraft, capable of transporting cargo to future space stations, Emmanuel Macron announced Monday in Toulouse, judging the market “potentially considerable, both in its civil and military needs”. “We must launch into this competition, but with the same method as for launchers, by opening the way to private initiatives, by authorizing the riskiest bets,” affirmed the French president, presenting new areas of development for the France 2030 investment plan dedicated to innovation.
Of the 54 billion euros dedicated to France 2030, 1.5 billion are devoted to space, having already made it possible to hatch eight micro-launcher projects, small reusable rockets, and four others for constellations of satellites. The 22 member states of ESA, the European Space Agency, decided in November to take a first step towards manned flight by displaying their desire to develop a space cargo ship by 2028, capable of initially transporting cargo in orbit and return to Earth, perhaps before astronauts.
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“Massive funding” to explore the potential of natural hydrogen
The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron promised Monday “massive funding to explore the potential of natural hydrogen” in the French subsoil. “In France 2030, we are going to provide massive funding to explore the potential of what we call white hydrogen, that is to say natural hydrogen,” announced the head of state, without providing number.
“We cannot let this resource sleep,” he said, highlighting the recent overhaul of the mining code “finally modernized following many years” and which allows France “to find a real mining strategy and ‘resource extraction consistent with the best environmental standards’. “We are going all out on electrolyzers, but now we are going twice as fast on natural hydrogen,” he said.
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