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by recyclinage » 26/07/09, 12:04

Grenelle of the environment: "it took two years"
NOUVELOBS.COM | 24.07.2009 | 10: 33

The Grenelle 1 bill was definitively adopted by Parliament. France Nature Environnement deplores "the slowness of the process" and judges the text "timid" on the Climate Energy Contribution.

The France Nature Environment federation (FNE) reserved a mixed reception on Thursday 23 July after the final adoption by Parliament of the "Grenelle I" program bill. The association deplores "the slowness of the process": it "took two years to include in the law the main objectives and the main tools", she underlines. The Grenelle de l'environnement was held in 2007.

In a press release, FNE observes in particular that the Grenelle I law is "timid" on the Climate Energy Contribution (CCE), which aims to regulate energy consumption. "The law only provides for a study to be carried out within six months."

"Three ambitious perspectives for agriculture"

Concerning the building sector, for which the law provides for efforts to reduce energy consumption, FNE stresses that "it appears essential to initiate a vast training program for professionals in the sector". "This project could have been strongly supported by the State, especially since this sector will create jobs which is not negligible in the context of the crisis", underlines FNE, noting that "the text remains on this point very limited since the State will simply 'encourage' the actors of the sector ".

FNE, which brings together associations for the protection of nature, also welcomes the fact that the Grenelle I law opens up "three ambitious perspectives for agriculture: the reduction by half of the use of pesticides, the development of organic farming. and environmental certification of farms ". But she regrets that the legislator has "not quite gone to the end of its logic because, for example, the question of using public catering to promote organic and quality agriculture remains treated in a very limited way. ".

Final vote in the Senate

The Grenelle 1 bill, which sets the main environmental guidelines for France in terms of transport, energy and housing, was finally adopted by Parliament on Thursday after a final vote in the Senate.
The text was approved by the UMP and centrist majority but also by the PS, which welcomed its "real progress".
Communist parliamentarians abstained while the Greens did not take part in the vote to express their discontent. "Too many concessions have been made to lobbies, in particular to the nuclear lobby," said deputy Noël Mamère.
The Minister of Ecology and Energy, Jean-Louis Borloo, welcomed Thursday the final adoption of the bill, saying that this law "allows France to demonstrate that concerted ecological change is possible ".
(Nouvelobs.com with AP)


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by recyclinage » 27/07/09, 11:22

The course of the Grenelle 1 law finally ended on Thursday, with the second passage before the Senate. It therefore took more than a year and a half for this law to set, in national legislation, the broad guidelines adopted at the Grenelle de l'Environnement at the end of 2007. The text was approved by the UMP and the centrists. but also by the PS, which welcomed its "real progress".
Called the "programming law", this text without including any provisions of direct application (an objective set in the Grenelle 2 law, known as the "implementing law", currently under review) nevertheless transcribes significant changes in all sectors participating in environmental degradation or climate change.

Two sectors are particularly concerned: construction, with a reduction in energy consumption by 38% by 2020, and transport (less 20% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, bringing them back to 1990 levels ). Overall, we can remember:
- Fight against climate change
Confirmation of "the commitment made by France to divide its greenhouse gas emissions by four between 1990 and 2050 by reducing by 3% per year, on average, the emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere" . Likewise, the objective of "increasing the share of renewable energies to at least 23% of its final energy consumption by 2020" is also now enshrined in national legislation.
- Building
"All new buildings covered by a building permit application filed from the end of 2012 and, in anticipation from the end of 2010, if they are public buildings and buildings assigned to the sector tertiary sector, have primary energy consumption below a threshold of 50 kilowatt-hours per square meter and per year on average ". However, this consumption ceiling may be higher for "... energies which present an advantageous balance sheet in terms of greenhouse gas emissions ... in order to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions" . From 2020, the legislation in this area will become even tougher, since all new constructions from the end of 2020 will have to have a primary energy consumption lower than the amount of renewable energy they produce. In the old housing sector, the State has set itself the renovation, by 2020, of "800 social housing units whose energy consumption is greater than 000 kilowatt-hours of primary energy per square meter and per year. .. in order to reduce their annual consumption to values ​​below 230 kilowatt-hours of primary energy per square meter. "
- Transportation
Increase the share of "non-road and non-air travel from 14% to 25% by 2022".
As such, 2000 km of new high-speed rail lines are planned by 2020, and "The two main North-South axes of the network will be developed to allow the circulation of long trains of at least 1 meters. " On the maritime side, the "development of sea motorway lines on the Atlantic coast between France, Spain and Portugal and on the Mediterranean coast between France, Spain and Italy ... will aim to allow a modal shift of 000 to 5% of the traffic concerned ". At the level of heavy goods vehicles, "An eco-tax will be levied ... from 10 on the basis of the cost of using the national metropolitan road network not conceded and the roads of local authorities liable to be postponed in traffic". The government will soon also have to present a study "on the issues and the relative impacts, on the one hand, to the generalization of the authorization of circulation of heavy goods vehicles of 2011 tons and, on the other hand, to the speed reduction. at 44 kilometers / hour for all heavy goods vehicles traveling on the motorway and their prohibition to overtake on these axes ".
- Biodiversity
A green and blue grid, or ecological corridor aimed at facilitating the movement of species will be developed, while within ten years at least 2% of the metropolitan land territory will be protected, which "implies in particular the creation of three new parks and the acquisition ... of 20 hectares of wetlands ".
The principle of "compensation" for the loss of biodiversity is retained, aimed at "restoring the numbers of endangered species or varieties and the areas of the environments to which it has been damaged".
- Agriculture
The useful agricultural area, carried out in organic farming, will be increased to 6% in 2012 and 20% in 2020. "The tax credit in favor of organic farming will be doubled from the year 2009". For pesticides, "the forty substances of greatest concern according to their substitutability and their dangerousness for humans" will be withdrawn from the market (thirty at the latest in 2009, ten by the end of 2010). On the other hand, the use of "substances of concern for which there are no technically and economically viable substitute products or practices" should "decrease by 50% by 2012".
By the end of 2009, "an inventory of the health of farmers and agricultural workers and an epidemiological surveillance program" will be launched. Finally, "A national policy will aim at the rehabilitation of agricultural soils and the development of domestic, cultivated and natural biodiversity on farms.", While by the end of 2009, a specific registration system should make it possible to open " the catalog of seeds for old local varieties, including population varieties, and varieties threatened by genetic erosion, in particular to facilitate their use by agricultural professionals. "
- Health
As regards indoor air, "construction and furnishing products as well as wall and floor coverings, paints and varnishes and all products having the object or effect of emitting substances into the air. 'ambient air "will be subject" to mandatory labeling from 1 January 2012, in particular on their emissions and content of volatile pollutants ". At the same time, "substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction in categories 1 and 2 (CMR 1 and CMR 2) will be prohibited in these products," within the meaning of European regulations ".
- Waste
In addition to "the production of household and similar waste of 7% per capita over the next five years", the recycling of household and similar waste should be increased to 35% in 2012 and 45% in 2015 (24% in 2004). "This rate will be raised to 75% from 2012 for household packaging waste and ordinary waste from companies other than building and public works, agriculture, food industries and specific activities." Likewise, the problem of organic waste is finally taken into account, with the improvement of "... the management of organic waste by prioritizing the local management of the latter, with domestic and local composting, and then methanization and composting of the fermentable fraction of household waste and more particularly that of collected waste from large producers ".
- Environmental impact of infrastructure
The Grenelle 1 law also includes for "public decisions likely to have a significant impact on the environment", the need to provide "proof that an alternative decision that is more favorable to the environment is impossible at a reasonable cost".








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