Table 3 Strength of the impact of the blocks of measures proposed in each sector, as assessed by the technical advisory group.

From: “Co-construction” in deliberative democracy: lessons from the French Citizens’ Convention for Climate

 

High

High to medium

Medium

Medium to low

Low

N/A

Transportation

• Decarbonization of car fleet

• Promote alternatives to private cars

• Public infrastructure for alternative transportation modes

• Promote railways beyond high-speed rail

• Reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles

• Reduce GHG emissions on motorways

• Reduce GHG emissions from aviation

 

• Zero emissions for ships in port idling

• Centralize information about local transportation modes

• Involve citizens in the governance of local mobility

• Corporate mobility plans

Housing

• Make building renovation mandatory by 2040

• Reduce land cover and urban sprawl by making rural areas attractive

 

• Significantly reduce building and industrial energy demand

   

Food

• Foster agro-ecological practices

 

• More sustainable catering

• Fairer involvement of farmers in commercial negotiations

• Shorter supply chains

• Reduced food waste

• Reform of agricultural education

• Ambitious stances in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

• Harness the CAP to change domestic policy

• Change business models

• Better inform consumers

• Include ecocide crime in domestic legislation

   

Consumption

  

• Mandatory disclosure of carbon scores

• Rid advertising of over-consumption incentives

 

• Reduce over-packaging

• Foster education

• Increase monitoring of environmental policy

Labor and production

• Better account for GHG-intensity of imports

 

• Financial support for cleaning production

• Include carbon accounting in balance sheets

• Stress environmental criteria in public procurement

• Decentralization of energy production and storage

• Foster environmental innovation

• Foster recycling and reuse

• Accompany job transformation

• Protect ecosystems and biodiversity

• Reduce carbon footprint and digitalization

• Reduce worktime without salary loss [not retained]