ABSTRACT
This report highlights the importance of green technologies for France's ecological transition and reindustrialization. It emphasizes that cleantech, in addition to reducing carbon emissions, plays a key role in job creation and the revitalization of industrial regions. France, faced with marked de-industrialization, needs to step up investment in this sector to remain competitive with the United States and China, which have massively supported their green industries. The report proposes 30 concrete measures to make France a leader in cleantech, including tax incentives, support for industrial start-ups and better access to public and private financing. The aim is to link industrial sovereignty and ecological transition, while promoting social cohesion through the creation of well-paid local jobs.
Cleantech players benefit from greater local acceptability. Indeed, some of them provide solutions for the local ecological transition (waste management with Néolithe, low-carbon cement with Ecocem, local energy sources); their plants are virtuous and integrate well into the landscape; they recreate local know-how in trades of the future. Because they bring meaning, they contribute to a new image of industry and are favorably received by elected officials and citizens, particularly when new plants open."
Virginie SAKS, Co-founder of COMPAGNUMM
