A few days before the COP27, Emmanuel Macron wants to encourage these manufacturers to reduce their carbon footprint more quickly, but is considering support systems for fear of relocation.
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The largest French industrial groups, among the most polluting, are invited by Emmanuel Macron to meet next Tuesday at the Elysée, learned Thursday, November 3 franceinfo from sources close to the file.
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As COP27 opens this weekend in Egypt, the President of the Republic wants to encourage TotalEnergies, Lafarge, Saint-Gobain and the others to reduce their carbon footprint more quickly. However, for fear of relocations, the government is also considering support measures.
According to information from franceinfo, Emmanuel Macron will therefore tell French industrialists that the State will support them in the face of the rise in the price of carbon and while the European Commission plans to further tighten the rules of the European market by, for example, gradually abolishing quotas. current freebies to certain industrial sectors. The Elysée is working in particular on a kind of ecological shield with incentives but also sanctions to avoid competition between States.
The goal for the government is to encourage them to quickly develop greener sectors, such as low-carbon hydrogen, to gain market share in international competition. The executive wishes above all to encourage these industrial sites to continue their production on French territory rather than to settle in the United States, China or Brazil, where the constraints of decarbonization are less strong. Especially since the government estimates that these 50 manufacturers alone represent nearly 30,000 jobs spread throughout the territory.