2023-07-12 11:57:20
France
The Greens call for emergency measures to survive the summer
The left-wing group has listed twenty “essential” and “necessary” actions to be implemented immediately. Among them, the increase in the budget allocated to the green fund.
UpdatedJuly 12, 2023, 2:19 PM
The green group wants to regulate car traffic in metropolitan areas during heat peaks.
Focus on home renovations
The EELV elected officials plead first for “the adaptation of the habitat” with a vast plan of global thermal renovation. To “spend the summer”, they are now asking for “improvements” by subsidizing solar protection (shading, shutters) and making them compulsory in the event of major work by condominiums. To “return the rays of the sun”, they call for “repainting all public buildings white” and encouraging the private sector to do the same.
In schools, they are calling for the greening of 100% of playgrounds by 2035. On the transport side, the green group wants to regulate car traffic in metropolitan areas during heat peaks, with the lowering of speed, and alternate or prohibited traffic in the most exposed areas. He also wants the implementation of “reasonable air conditioning solutions for public transport” to strengthen their attractiveness to the car.
The twenty-three Green MPs are calling for working conditions to be adapted to high temperatures with the launch of inter-professional negotiations on the subject and the introduction of a “right of withdrawal from 33°C in the Labor Code”. The Insoumise Caroline Fiat also proposed on Tuesday a right of withdrawal in the event of heat waves, insisting on the exposed professions: construction, agricultural workers… To protect access to water, elected officials EELV propose “to prohibit the watering of golf courses in the event of level 2 and 3 drought”. They would like the prohibition of “megabasins”, the water reservoirs of farmers once morest which elected EELV had protested in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), during the demonstration of March 25 marked by violent clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement.
Billions of euros more to finance adaptation
To “finance adaptation”, they ask to add an additional two billion euros to the green fund intended for communities. In a recent newspaper interview The Parisian, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne had promised to add an additional 5 billion euros to the already planned increase of 2 billion in 2024, in order to double the rate of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in France and meet the objectives for 2030.
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