Question 25643 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Philippe Dunoyer draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition to the prevention and preparation systems for natural risks in the French Pacific territories. He recalls that these territories, particularly affected by the risks of cyclones and marine submersion or tsunamis, are not eligible for either the “Barnier Fund” or the “Green Fund”. On the one hand, the risk prevention fund major natural resources known as the “Barnier fund”, which has become the main source of funding for prevention, does not cover these territories. On the other hand, the “Green Fund”, created as part of COP21 in 2015, intended in particular for small Pacific states in order to support their adaptation to climate change, does not benefit the French Pacific territories. In order to compensate for this lack, a budget line was devoted to a “ equivalent” within the “overseas” mission of the budget in 2017, renewed in 2018 thanks to a parliamentary initiative. He recalls that the Overseas Minister recognized, when the Government wanted to remove this “equivalent” in the finance law for 2018, that this situation was not satisfactory. As formulated in the information report of the senatorial delegation overseas on major natural risks in overseas territories (July 2018) in its recommendations, "this transitional solution of a budget line from the Ministry of Overseas Territories must give way to a lasting system that meets a long-term challenge: it is necessary to consider an attachment to the "Barnier Fund" whose scope would be extended, or the creation of an ad hoc fund, with a similar method of resources and management". He therefore wishes to question her about the initiatives that are taken by the Government to integrate the Pacific territories into the policy implemented at the national level in terms of prevention of natural risks, in order to enable them to cope with the effects of global warming and rising water levels.

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