Part IV - The reform agenda for recovered sovereignty
19 - Environment and Biodiversity
Sovereign France adopts an environmental position founded on a simple principle: sovereignty mechanically produces better environmental policy than binding supranational treaties. Industrial relocation, nuclear energy, sovereign agriculture and the prohibition of non-compliant products together constitute a de facto environmental policy: without needing to name it explicitly.
The Founding Principle
We are relocating a pollution that we had offshored. This is assumed and not concealed. Claiming that offshoring production resolves the environmental problem is a hypocrisy that sovereign France refuses: polluting Asians or Africans in our place is not an environmental policy, it is a transfer of responsibility disguised as virtue. The local environmental costs of our sovereign choices are assumed, with strict standards on relocated industries: not the same standards as the low-cost countries we are replacing.
International Agreements
France actively participates in the Paris Agreement and in biodiversity conventions. These agreements are non-binding coordination frameworks: not ideological treaties that encroach on national sovereignty. As long as they remain within this framework, France contributes positively to them through its recovered sovereignty, without needing a supranational green technocracy to dictate its choices.
What the Project Already Produces
Several reform agenda items of the project constitute a substantial environmental policy without naming it as such. Nuclear and hydroelectric energy produces decarbonized electricity across the entire national output. Industrial relocation eliminates emissions linked to the global transport of goods. Sovereign agriculture imposes short supply chains and strict health standards, and puts an end to the importation of products treated with pesticides banned in France. The prohibition of products non-compliant with French standards imposes the same environmental standards on imports as on national producers. The priority given to renovation over new construction massively reduces the carbon footprint of the construction sector.
Biodiversity
The preservation of species and ecosystems relies on ground-level actors: farmers, agronomists, small and medium-sized farms, fishing mariners, marine biologists, coral reef specialists. Not industrial agricultural lobbies nor experts disconnected from local realities. Those who live from the land and the sea have the direct interest in their preservation, and the accumulated expertise to contribute to it effectively.
The gradual phase-out of dangerous pesticides - those whose danger is documented, not all of them - is mandatorily accompanied. The farmers concerned benefit from transition funding by the Caisse des Dépôts, realistic timelines defined with them and not imposed from above, and coordination assured by the Planning Commission. The zero net artificialisation objective frames territorial development: any artificialized surface must be compensated by an equivalent de-artificialization, in coherence with the general priority given to renovation over new construction.
France possesses the world's largest maritime space thanks to its overseas territories: an environmental responsibility commensurate with this exceptional asset. Coral reefs are subject to protection zones defined with local communities. Fish stocks are managed sustainably with quotas defined with local fishing mariners: no more European quotas imposed from Brussels without knowledge of ground-level realities. The fight against illegal fishing mobilizes the national navy in coordination with these same mariners, who know their zones better than anyone.