The COP21, organized by the UN, is expected to result in an agreement between states. Local authorities, notably the Regions, will also play a crucial role in preserving our planet and climate.
Nicolas Hulot appealed to politicians in an advocacy listing “12 essential proposals for policymakers.” EELV candidates, across all regions of France, have wished to provide a response.
Some are already engaged in the regions where ecologists have been in charge, others still need to be developed or put into action.
Here they are in their entirety! The reading suggests a sort of catalog of the “new world as we dream it,” but that’s ecology: reading it, one wonders how the earth could turn without them!
Finally Regulate Finance
• Fight against tax havens and tax evasion.
• Prioritize ratings based on environmental and social criteria.
• Promote alternatives (Local currencies, socially innovative projects, sharing communities, recycling centers).
Put the Economy at the Service of Humans
• Accelerate the development of the Social and Solidarity Economy and promote jobs with high Social and Environmental utility.
• Support businesses that employ people in reintegration.
• Integrate mandatory inclusion clauses in public procurement.
Stop the Abuses of Multinationals
• Promote aid to artisans, very small enterprises (VSEs), and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Declare Regions “TTIP (TAFTA) free zones.”
• End large useless projects supported by some large groups.
• Impose social and environmental criteria for obtaining all regional aid.
Produce and Consume in a Virtuous Circle
• Turn regions in France into “Zero Waste” regions.
• Develop local and renewable energy production for regions that are 100% renewable.
• Increase aid for the sharing economy, the economy of functionality, and the Circular economy by promoting the local economy.
Defuel Investments
• Engage regions in “carbon divestment” concerning financial partners, pension funds, etc.
• Develop public transport and mobility offers.
• Refuse permits for extraction and exploration of oil, shale oil, and gas across the entire territory. Integrate pollution into the sales price.
• Integrate and prioritize the carbon criterion in Regional procurement.
• Implement regional heavy goods vehicle taxes.
• Provide household aid to replace diesel vehicles and end public procurement of diesel vehicles.
Keep the Earth Blue
• Strengthen the protection of waterways, wetlands, banks, and the coastline.
• Phase out the use of chemical products in public, agricultural, and natural spaces.
• Promote rainwater harvesting in urban areas. Preserve the soil, the basis of life.
• Protect agricultural and natural lands through a master plan for “agricultural and natural lands of regional interest.”
• Implement a biodiversity conservation plan by strengthening PNRs, combating deforestation, etc.
• In Regional and rural contracts, value aid for projects that include a proactive policy for preserving agricultural, natural, and wetland areas.
Feed Without Destroying
• Develop organic and local agricultural sectors by establishing platforms for processing/storage of products to supply collective catering more easily (administrative canteens, school canteens).
• Promote support for the development of small-scale farming and for farmers wishing to move away from the productivist model in favor of organic, local farming, integrated into short and local circuits.
• Engage in a multi-year plan on “environmental health.” Reinforce social justice to combat climate disruption.
• Progressivity of Regional grants (family quotient, social pricing in transport, etc.)
• Launch thermal renovation plans for buildings.
• Guarantee the right to lifelong learning to work in future sectors.
Reinvent Democracy
• Establish a “Regional Assembly for the Long Term” to engage in construction with citizens.
• Promote and support public inquiries to make them “enforceable.”
• Develop participatory budgets.
Give Global Governance to the Environment
• Engage associations of local authorities (CGLU, AMF, etc.).
• Create a Green Fund for local authorities.
• Anticipate natural disasters and prepare to welcome climate refugees.
