The report on the financing of the ecological transition submitted on Monday by the economist Jean Pisani-Ferry to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne proposes two tracks hitherto considered as lines. The report stresses that the transition to a low-carbon economy will not succeed without helping households and increasing public debt.
The coming years are described as a "decade of all difficulties" with massive needs to finance new mobility, green industry or building insulation, or to compensate for the collapse of the French forest carbon sink. "It is intolerable for people to be told: 'You can no longer use your car', while the wealthiest will simply pay a little more for their weekend in Rome," says the Ecological Transition Minister.