“The right and the extreme right use ecology to stir up fears and fracture the country” | EUROtoday

After a primary intense warmth wave, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, is anxious about declines and assaults “Populist” of the appropriate and the intense proper on environmental topics. It needs to decrease taxation on electrical energy by growing that on gasoline and publicizes that an inter -ministerial committee will probably be held in the beginning of the varsity yr on adaptation.

France’s greenhouse gasoline emissions are steady within the first quarter of 2025 as a substitute of falling. What is your response?

We are at + 0.2 % for the primary quarter, which is a rise. These are very unhealthy figures and the yr is not going to be good, since Citepa [anciennement Centre interprofessionnel technique d’études de la pollution atmosphérique] offers a drop of solely 0.8 %. It can be straightforward to incriminate the climate [l’hiver 2025 a été plus froid qu’en 2024, augmentant le recours au chauffage]. But, in truth, the confusion of political discourse, the reculades, the irresponsible and populist remarks of some on the ecological transition additionally clarify what we observe.

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