Ecological Transition: Court of Auditors Calls for "Better Spending"
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Is France moving fast enough in its ecological transition? For the Court of Auditors, the answer is no. In its annual report presented on Wednesday, the institution points in particular to delays in several sectors.
According to the institution, abandoning the investment necessary for the ecological transition "would lead to a lasting aggravation of the state of public finances".
"In a constrained budgetary context, the additional public investment effort needed to achieve our objectives is not unattainable as long as we are ready to make choices," she said Wednesday at a press conference at Amélie de Montchalin, the institution's first president. "The challenge is therefore less to spend more than to choose the most effective instruments and to know how to measure their results," she insisted. The heats, fires and droug…
In a report published on Wednesday, 7 October, the financial judges stress the need to maintain efforts to promote decarbonisation and adaptation to climate change, an objective that "is not contrary to France's economic interests".
In its second annual report on the ecological transition, the Court of Auditors calls on France to strengthen and better finance the ecological transition.
In its second annual report on the ecological transition, published on Wednesday, 7 October, the institution points to the economic cost of lagging behind in climate policies.
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