Overview
- Agnès Pannier-Runacher keeps the ecology brief with biodiversity, forests, sea and fisheries, while energy remains under Economy Minister Roland Lescure’s “industrial and energy sovereignty” remit.
- The ministry retains a diminished standing at 11th in protocol rank, far below the prominence it held early in Macron’s first term.
- Her teams finalized the third National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC3) this summer but it has not been released, and the third multiannual energy plan (PPE3) was held back by Matignon after being slated for late July publication.
- She secured adoption of the third national climate adaptation plan, even as she fought budget cuts, weighed resignation, and saw environmental rollbacks such as the Duplomb law partly censured by the Constitutional Council.
- She is slated to represent France at COP30 in Belém in late November, and following Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s resignation she urged outreach to the left to break the political impasse over the budget.