“The drop in shipments is credible [de energia] from Russia to Europe,” he said, calling for action to reduce external dependency and create domestic jobs while combating climate change.
At the colloquium of the Economic Conferences of Aix-en-Provence, a forum that meets every year in this city in southeastern France, Elisabeth Bourne said that “reality cannot be hidden“, between the news about the reduction of Russian gas supplies to a number of countries, for example, to Germany, and fears that the flow of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be cut.
The French prime minister said her government would soon present “energy sobriety plan“, the purpose of which is the rapid mobilization of the entire population to reduce consumption, repair old houses and decarbonize transport and industry.
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“This is an opportunity to strengthen our sovereignty and create jobs in our territory,” he said.
In his opinion, this will also avoid the “vulnerability” that is estimated to happen regularly with “rise in the price of a barreland this affects the “purchasing power of millions” of people.
Another important consequence of moving away from fossil fuels will be to accelerate the fight against climate change.
