Is she threatening, like Didier Migaud, to resign? In less explicit terms than her Justice colleague, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy Agnès Pannier-Runacher warned on Friday October 18 that if her ministry did not have “the means to [son] action” in the 2025 budget, it “in [tirerait] conclusions.” “We need a budget that is up to the situation and that is not the case today,” she declared, interviewed on BFMTV/RMC. “Above all, I want to work to have the means of my action […] If I don’t have them, I will draw conclusions from them.”
In the draft finance law (PLF) for 2025, currently under examination in the National Assembly, the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Energy, Climate and Risk Prevention sees its commitment authorizations increase, at 16.8 billion euros, the minister indicated on Wednesday to the National Assembly. At the same time, the project provides for a reduction in aid for thermal renovation (MaPrimeRénov) or the Green Fund. This system, which finances ecological projects of communities since 2022, goes from 2.5 billion euros to one billion.
“I don’t know if we should still expect drama…”
Agnès Pannier-Runacher estimated on Friday that “today, in budgetary matters, on adaptation to climate change and on the fight against greenhouse gas emissions, the account is not there”. “I expect the national representation to take up this subject, I do not know if we still have to wait for tragedies to understand that it is an absolute necessity to invest in adaptation to climate change”, a- she added, after exceptional rain fell on Thursday in the Center-East and South-East of France.
On Wednesday, the Minister of Ecological Transition, interviewed in the National Assembly, judged that her ministry’s budget “was a combat budget”, which “commits us to be more efficient and more selective.” “In our budgetary context, my ministry will take its part, because I will be a responsible minister,” she indicated.