National Energy and Climate Programming Bill for 2025–2035

This private member's bill establishes France's major energy policy choices through 2035, stepping in where the government has failed to introduce its own energy programming legislation. The bill sets binding national targets covering the revival of nuclear power, the expansion of decarbonized and renewable energy sources, and the reduction of fossil fuel dependency and greenhouse gas emissions. The nuclear component of the bill formalizes the political commitment to new reactor construction, likely referencing the planned EPR2 program, positioning nuclear as a central pillar of France's low-carbon energy mix to 2035. The bill also sets trajectory targets for renewables to complement nuclear in achieving decarbonization goals. On the fossil fuel and emissions side, the bill defines reduction schedules aligned with France's climate commitments under the Paris Agreement and EU climate law. It effectively serves as a legislative substitute for the Programmation Pluriannuelle de l'Énergie (PPE) and the Stratégie Nationale Bas-Carbone (SNBC) frameworks that the executive had not consolidated into statute. Because it originates as a parliamentary initiative rather than a government bill, this text reflects cross-party legislative pressure to lock in long-term energy strategy regardless of executive inaction, giving the targets a stronger democratic and legal anchor.

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