Climate, Marine Le Pen
Adaptation to climate change: Plan clim: €10bn over 5 years to air-condition nurseries, schools, hospitals, care homes
Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.
The lever. Public resources to cope with the effects of global warming (heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods, coastal submersion): national adaptation plan, risk prevention fund, civil protection. Excludes emissions reduction. Direction rule: ↑ more public resources for adaptation.
Words reported by Public Sénat, « Plan Clim : le Rassemblement national détaille son projet à 40 milliards »: Néanmoins, le parti de Marine Le Pen défend un plan de « 10 milliards sur 5 ans tourné vers les publics les plus vulnérables ». Dans un deuxième temps, Thomas Ménagé et Jean-Philippe Tanguy proposent de créer un nouveau plan doté de 10 milliards pour, cette fois-ci, équiper les autres bâtiments publics accueillant des fonctionnaires comme les bâtiments de l'administration ou les commissariats.1
Translation by the editorsNevertheless, Marine Le Pen's party is defending a plan of “10 billion over 5 years aimed at the most vulnerable groups”. In a second phase, Thomas Ménagé and Jean-Philippe Tanguy propose creating a new plan with 10 billion to equip, this time, the other public buildings that house civil servants, such as administrative buildings or police stations.
Words of Jean-Philippe Tanguy, RN MP for the Somme, reported by Public Sénat, « Plan Clim : le Rassemblement national détaille son projet à 40 milliards », 30 June 2026. Words of an associate of the candidate: they do not formally commit the candidate.
Link to the candidacy: With Thomas Ménagé, he presents the RN's « plan clim » (air-conditioning plan) (press conference of 30 June 2026), a follow-up to the « grand plan d'équipement pour la climatisation » [“major air-conditioning equipment plan”] announced by Marine Le Pen in June 2025.
No programme released. Positions taken from public statements, words of associates or documents of the candidate’s party, each dated and sourced; last recorded on 18 October 2026.
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| Parameter | Current law | Proposed | Effective date or horizon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additional public resources for climate change adaptation | 0 €bn/year | 2 €bn/year (assumption by the editors, see the costing) | Spending in a full year, static: €1 announced = €1 of deficit, compared with current policies |
Costing
Announced by the candidate
amount not broken down
Amount announced with no readable annual amount for this position alone: « 10 milliards sur 5 ans tourné vers les publics les plus vulnérables » [“10 billion over 5 years directed at the most vulnerable groups”], then €10bn for other public buildings (RN, press conference of 30 June 2026)
Published costings
none
No external costing of this position recorded to date.
Our calculation
−€2bn
per year for the public accounts, new spending. Candidate’s amount, taken as is.
The calculation
- Additional public resources for climate change adaptation: (2 − 0) ÷ 1 = 2 times “+€1bn a year of public spending on climate change adaptation”, each a cost of €1bn (1 to 1).
Assumption by the editors. Partial costing. Reading used: €10bn over five years, the first five-year term, to air-condition the public buildings that serve the most vulnerable, i.e. €2bn a year; the next €10bn falls after 2032. The interest the State would pay on zero-interest loans to individuals is not counted (partial costing): its amount is given only by journalists, and the candidate says of her renovation and air-conditioning policy that « sous le premier quinquennat, cette politique sera bénéficiaire » [“during the first five-year term, this policy will be profitable”] (press conference of 6 October 2026), without figures. The loans themselves, being repaid, are not spending. The « Suppression du fonds vert hors dépenses pour inondations et feux de forêts » [“Abolition of the green fund except spending on floods and forest fires”], included in the RN's 2026 counter-budget (23 October 2025, p. 7, €0.46bn in savings), is not counted; the « 100 % rénov » plan falls under the renovations lever.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Third national climate change adaptation plan (PNACC-3), announced on 10 March 2025, which adopts a reference warming trajectory of +4 °C by 2100. Fonds de prévention des risques naturels majeurs (major natural hazards prevention fund, « fonds Barnier », programme 181): €300m in commitment authorisations and €228.8m in payment appropriations in the LFI 2026; €300m and €238.8m in the PLF 2027. Fonds vert (green fund): €1bn in commitment authorisations and €981.4m in payment appropriations in the PLF 2027, including a dedicated adaptation envelope of €500m in commitment authorisations.
Horizon. Spending in a full year, static: €1 announced = €1 of deficit, compared with current policies.
Limits. Envelope parameter, like public investment or rail: it applies only to an amount announced on top of current resources. A fund announced as a total amount that brings together existing appropriations is counted by the gap with those appropriations, in payment appropriations of the PLF 2027 (Barnier fund €238.8m, Fonds vert €981.4m), the reading in commitment appropriations (€300m and €1bn) being cited in the note. Adaptation spending is scattered (Barnier fund, Fonds vert, civil protection, agriculture, health, local authorities) and has no official total: the Cour des comptes (2024) notes « l'absence de chiffrages exhaustifs et cohérents pour l'ensemble des acteurs publics » [“the absence of exhaustive and consistent costings for all public actors”], and I4CE (2025) identifies €1.7bn explicitly dedicated to adaptation in 2025. Benchmarks, not counted: the National Assembly's flash fact-finding mission on summer 2026 (rapporteur Éric Coquerel) estimates the cost of that summer at about €16bn and puts the public spending needed from summer 2027 at between €10bn and €13.6bn; these are estimates, not coefficients. A plan that funds investment works may overlap a public investment envelope (overlap declared); a plan that strengthens hospitals or care homes (EHPAD) is not also counted on the hospital or old-age levers.
- PLF 2027, projet annuel de performances, mission « Écologie, développement et mobilité durables » (pages 197, 299 et 450), 2026-10: « Le 3e plan national d’adaptation au changement climatique (PNACC -3) annoncé par la ministre le 10 mars 2025. […] la LFI 2026 a maintenu le fonds Barnier à hauteur de 300 M€ en AE et 228,8 M€ en CP. Les crédits de l’action 14 prévus au PLF 2027 sont de 300 M€ en AE et 238,8 M€ en CP. […] une enveloppe dédiée à hauteur de 500 M€ en AE »
- PLF 2027, projet annuel de performances, mission « Écologie, développement et mobilité durables », programme 380 « Fonds vert » (pages 450 et 451), 2026-10: « le montant du Fonds vert en 2027 est porté à 1 milliard d’euros en autorisations d’engagement (AE). En crédits de paiement, la dotation de 981,4 M€ permettra d’honorer les demandes de paiement correspondant aux dépenses engagées depuis 2023 »
- PLF 2027, projet annuel de performances, mission « Écologie, développement et mobilité durables » (programme 174), 2026-10: « l’adaptation des activités humaines à des trajectoires de réchauffement de référence de +4° à l’horizon 2100 »
- Assemblée nationale, communication de la mission d'information flash sur les coûts des fortes températures, de la sécheresse et des incendies de l'été 2026 (É. Coquerel, rapporteur), pages 8 et 33, 2026-10-05: « une estimation provisoire du coût des fortes températures et de la sécheresse de l’été 2026 de l’ordre de 16 milliards d’euros. […] LA MISSION D’INFORMATION ÉVALUE ENTRE 10 ET 13,6 MILLIARDS D’EUROS LES DÉPENSES PUBLIQUES NÉCESSAIRES – DONT ENTRE 8,4 ET 11,1 MILLIARDS ISSUS DU BUDGET DE L’ÉTAT – POUR FAIRE FACE À DES FORTES TEMPÉRATURES, SÉCHERESSES ET INCENDIES SIMILAIRES DÈS L’ÉTÉ 2027 »
- I4CE, « Adapter la France à +4 °C : moyens, besoins, financements », 2025-09: « Cette dynamique nous permet de recenser 1,7 milliard d’euros explicitement dédiés à l’adaptation en 2025 »
- Cour des comptes, rapport public annuel 2024, synthèses (l'adaptation au changement climatique), 2024-03-12: « on doit surtout relever, à ce stade, l’absence de chiffrages exhaustifs et cohérents pour l’ensemble des acteurs publics »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Public Sénat, « Plan Clim : le Rassemblement national détaille son projet à 40 milliards », 30 June 2026. Words of Jean-Philippe Tanguy reported by this outlet: the text quoted is the article’s, not their exact words. Words of an associate of the candidate: they do not formally commit the candidate. Read the source (Public Sénat, « Plan Clim : le Rassemblement national détaille son projet à 40 milliards »).
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