“What we need is a metamorphosis of our economy and the plan doesn’t talk about it,” laments an IPCC scientist

“We take small measures to the right and to the left”estimated Tuesday September 26 on franceinfo Yamina Saheb, researcher at the OFCE and co-author of the latest IPCC report, after the presentation Monday September 25 by Emmanuel Macron of the main axes of ecological planning in France. “What we need is a metamorphosis of our economy and the plan does not talk about it”she lamented, regretting the use by the Head of State of the term “transition” which, according to her, implies “Let us keep the same system”.

Yamina Saheb, however, welcomes the use of the word “sobriety” : “It is very good that the President of the Republic is talking about sobriety. We are the only country in the OECD, the only country in the European Union, where we have the highest state authority that speaks about sobriety . Sobriety does not exist in any instrument of the European Union, whereas it has existed in the French law on transition since 2015.”

One million heat pumps for “30 million main residences”

There “measured sobriety” desired by the Head of State is on the other hand a concept “that he will have to define us”. For her part, she pleads for a “transformative sobriety”that’s to say “a structural sobriety, which will require major transformations, major investment efforts, real public policies”.

Among the measures announced by Emmanuel Macron, the objective of producing one million heat pumps per year by 2027 “is not the miracle solution”estimates the scientist, “We need to renovate buildings, that means insulating buildings and renovating them to the ‘low consumption building’ performance level”.

This summer, the government announced that the budget for MaPrimeRénov’ must increase to 4 billion euros next year, but it is not just a question of amount according to Yamina Saheb: “Adding investment to carry out poor renovation is wasting public money. And just talking about the heat pump without saying anything about the level of overall energy performance of buildings is not very useful. thing”. The scientist believes that this announcement lacks ambition, because when Emmanuel Macron “says at the end of the five-year term, we will have produced and we will make the hypothesis that we will have installed 1 million heat pumps in France. You should know that we have a little more than 30 million main residences. If we installs 1 million per five-year term, I’ll let you do the calculation”.