This document explores the need to revitalize environmental dialogue in France, emphasizing the importance of citizen participation in environmental decision-making processes. It discusses the Aarhus Convention, the Environmental Charter, and the Bouchardeau law, highlighting the need for institutionalized citizen involvement in environmental dialogue.
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[...] In the meantime, it is possible to rejoice at the setting up of such an initiative. All the more so since citizens will be supported by a college of experts, by a guarantor committee responsible for ensuring the respect of the rules of independence and deontology of the process (increasingly sensitive) and by a technical and legal body to allow the transcription of the proposals formulated, which will be submitted either to the vote of Parliament, or to a referendum or will give rise directly to regulatory measures. [...]
[...] The breakthrough of ecologists in the last European elections, the blockages of different projects considered contrary to environmental preservation, such as the symbolic examples of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport or the Montagne d'Or project, the strikes and demonstrations of young people every Friday in the developed countries of the world testify to the fact that environmental and climate issues are progressing and forcing public decision-makers to move to associate the population more closely with decision-making processes. This is why a Citizen Convention for the Climate was set up following the restitution of the productions of the Grand National Debate organized by President Emmanuel Macron. This citizen convention responds to the double demand of the French for more participatory democracy and more ecology. [...]
[...] From 2016, a new step was taken with renewed modalities in environmental dialogue. However, the electoral surge of ecologists in the last European elections, in France as in other neighboring countries, shows that citizens are still waiting for even more action on the climate. A pressing need for the consideration of citizen voices in environmental decision-making processes has emerged and will certainly become even stronger as long as the association of the population with environmental dialogue is not more institutionalized. [...]
[...] It recalls the values to which we are attached. It opens up new spaces for expression, new tools for information, new possibilities for weighing, participating, building. These words from Nathalie Appéré, Mayor of Rennes, are an excerpt from the Rennes Charter of Local Democracy adopted in 2014. It is the beginning of an important movement of Rennais and Rennaises who now benefit from an important place in assemblies and neighborhood councils, which can decide a non-negligible part of the city of Rennes' investments, seize a mediator or request the inscription of a particular question on the agenda of the Municipal Council. [...]
[...] Q5- How many transparent plastic bottles are needed to make a t-shirt? - 4 - 6 - 12 Answer B - 6 transparent plastic bottles are enough to make 1 t-shirt. « Our house is burning and we're looking elsewhere.' This phrase spoken by Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, at the opening of his speech to the Plenary Assembly of the 4th Earth Summit on September in Johannesburg, is striking in its current relevance. It has already been nearly 20 years since the highest French political authorities have been warning about inaction in the face of climate change and threats to biodiversity. [...]
