Nicolas Sarkozy promised a "green revolution", Ségolène Royal wants to make the France country of environmental excellence", Dominique de Villepin launched the idea of a"Pact for the environment"and François Bayrou advocates a"new political ecology. " Read heads of chapter of the candidates in the presidential election, the threat that leaves glide Nicolas Hulot to engage in the fight to raise the defence of the planet and climate change policy has had its effect. "This subject is now much more taken into account in the previous presidential campaigns", analysis Anne-Marie Ducroux, who was until recently President of the national Council for sustainable development. Daniel Boy, Director of research at the Centre for the study of life political French (Cevipof), compares it burst of Nicolas Hulot in political life to the role of Commander Cousteau in the 1970s. "Scientists trample of impatience, and ask us how to mobilise policies and get them to take concrete decisions," he added.
Tax incentive

To avoid too much warming, researchers say the need to divide by four gas emissions greenhouse by 2050. However, citizens are responsible for 40 of the emissions while driving their cars, living in overheated homes and eating meat at every meal. Which brings the Greens claim significant efforts in the field of training for convincing the French to change their way of life. "Did not know and understand the implication of its actions on a daily basis makes action difficult," explain.
Instead of using a speech of compulsion to citizens-voters, the UMP and PS prefer for the moment the tax incentive. The majority party, which opposed five years ago to environmental taxes required by Dominique Voynet, put now on green taxation. The Party of Nicolas Sarkozy even rallied to the idea of the "Cambridge tax", which is to weigh on products imported from countries not subject to obligations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and would have the effect of making more expensive consumer products transported across the globe.
Renovate public buildings
Meanwhile, Ségolène Royal, after having developed a policy of aid to renewable energies and created the TER 1 euro note once a month in Poitou-Charentes, proposes allocating a small share of taxes on fuels to the financing of a programme of the European networks of transport (piggyback transport and motorway of the sea).
François Bayrou, the UDF, plate also on a carbon tax and prepares today to respond to the proposal of Nicolas Hulot.
Completely absent from the political debates in recent years, the theme of the savings of energy and the need to properly insulate old buildings is now consensus. The UMP goes very far in the speech by repeating the environmental slogan, "the cleanest energy is by far not energy", but still shy in solutions: offer of tax credits and loans at zero rate to help individuals to renovate their homes. As the PS, it sets an ambitious and costly renovation of public buildings in ten years, without can evaluate whether it will have the means. May the taxation of "indulging" of oil companies suffice
One thing is certain, the civil society will remain careful during the campaign. Climatologists from around the world were meeting in Paris next February. And defenders of the environment which are grouped under a same banner, the "Alliance", enhance the website on which they will compare the updated agenda the proposals of the candidates.