Although sobriety plans and associated voluntary incentives (eco-gestures) have contributed to usefully raising public awareness, they remain largely insufficient to build a viable long-term sobriety policy. Indeed, until now, the practice of eco-gestures within French homes has been identified as the only avatar of sobriety by citizens.
However, public policies of afghanistan phone number list sobriety and the development of infrastructure can largely influence behaviors on a larger scale, by making, for example, low-carbon mobility accessible to all. This includes regulatory measures to force manufacturers to produce and market lighter vehicles, while at the same time improving the public transport offer available and investing in the deployment of cycle paths. While the latter currently represent the greatest need for investment at the local level in France, our country is going through a period of budgetary austerity with a possible reduction in the Green Fund envelope . In doing so, future economic arbitrations will be decisive for the development of a structural sobriety policy.
Finally, promoting sobriety involves targeting the most polluting sectors as a priority and , in a spirit of social justice, the wealthiest players. Carbon-intensive industries and businesses will have to be involved, before households , which were already heavily solicited during the energy crisis. Such a progressive operating method will help to generalize a policy of sobriety in the collective imagination as soon as it affects all sectors of society.