Stratégie claire pour "mur d'investissements" selon Cour des comptes

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La Cour des comptes se réjouit d'une "prise de conscience" de l'urgence de s'adapter au changement climatique, mais demande mardi à l'État de mieux assumer son rôle de stratège et d'estimer de manière plus précise les efforts budgétaires nécessaires, face au "mur d'investissements". - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 The Court of Auditors is delighted with a conscious decision to adapt to climate change,

00:05 but on Tuesday, it asked the State to better assume its role as a strategist

00:08 and to estimate in a more precise way the necessary budgetary efforts in the face of the investment wall.

00:13 In the annual report, on several hundred pages,

00:17 the magistrates underline the need for public action in favour of adapting to climate change to be transparent, coherent and efficient.

00:24 This requirement is reflected in 16 chapters on real estate and the cereal culture, on the role of banks in the future of the electricity grid,

00:31 and on the role of the State and large public companies, such as the SNCF and EDF,

00:37 which must adapt the rail network or nuclear power plants to increasingly high long-term temperatures.

00:42 We see that the first president of the Court of Auditors, Pierre Moscovici,

00:47 is the one who has the most or least high-quality kaleidoscope of answers.

00:50 But they are not articulated, hence the imperative to plan.

00:54 It is necessary to know, inform, search, finance and plan, he sums up.

01:00 At the France Culture micro on Tuesday morning,

01:03 Pierre Moscovici judged that we must be smartly indebted to invest and face the challenges of the future.

01:09 And the first challenge, once again, is the ecological transition.

01:14 If we want to adapt to climate change, if we want to mitigate the impacts of climate change,

01:19 we need massive public and private investments, he added, evoking an investment wall.

01:25 In some areas, the State does not play its role of strategist correctly,

01:29 which consists in setting objectives and defining a trajectory to achieve them,

01:34 the authors regret in the annual report.

01:36 "The assessment of the current and future costs of adaptation is lacunar,

01:40 even non-existent, due to insufficient data but also sometimes clear objectives,"

01:45 note the magistrates. Less awareness.

01:49 This is the first time that this theme of adaptation has been the subject of a specific report of the Court,

01:54 a sign of the importance it has taken, after having long been hidden by the efforts

01:58 necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

02:02 The government wants to show itself more realistic by retaining the hypothesis of a warming of 4 °C

02:07 in France by the end of the century, serving as a basis for the third national plan

02:11 for adaptation to climate change, PNAC, expected at the beginning of summer.

02:15 The Court therefore congratulates itself on a "consciousness" of the urgency to adapt to climate change,

02:20 with its waves of more severe and long heat, its flooding that is worsening and the water resource that is decreasing.

02:26 The issue has long been taken into account, for example,

02:30 in the management of the RTE electricity transport network,

02:33 but the awareness is, on the other hand, embryonic in the Ministry of the Armed Forces, she notes.

02:37 The Court calls on the authorities to correct any insufficiencies in terms of planning in this document,

02:43 including inconsistencies, for example, in the adaptation of real estate or mountain tourism,

02:47 which are increasingly being confronted with the melting of the snow.

02:50 No magic numbers?

02:52 At the time of the budgetary savings, 10 billion euros in 2024 and 20 billion in 2025,

02:58 it also calls for a clear figure of the measures of adaptation, inevitably expensive.

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