FR / Green transition: need for assessment and financial planning (Cour des Comptes / report)

A lack of alignment between the policy pathways arising from European commitments and the funding pathways; an incomplete and short-term assessment of funding requirements; a lack of available funding sources, in both the public and private sectors: according to the authors of a report on the ecological transition published by the Cour des Comptes (French State Court of Auditors) on 8 October, these are the “three structural weaknesses that limit the effectiveness of public action”.

To address this, the Cour des Comptes has set out seven recommendations (some of which were already made in 2025), including: strengthening the role of the SGPE (General Secretariat for Ecological Planning) in preparing inter-ministerial decisions, making ex-post evaluation of laws with a significant…