The Socialist Party unveils its “ecological socialism” project for the start of the political year

The pink party turns green for the political start. After a scorching summer of 2026, repeated fires and a historic drought across France, the problem of global warming has taken a central place in the public debate. To the point of becoming an essential theme in the race for the Elysée, from France Insoumise and its ecoregions to Ecologists and their taxation on the inheritances of the most fortunate.

During his speech at the Socialist Party's summer universities on Saturday August 29, Olivier Faure in turn sounded "the hour of ecological socialism". Diversification of soils, circulation, water, fire prevention... The candidate for his camp's primary details, in front of his activists in Blois (Loir-et-Cher), the outlines of a "large national and European fund endowed with permanent resources" with a view to investing in ecology "over 20 or 30 years". “You have to program and plan,” he says.

This ecological plan has actually been in the party's pipeline for more than a year. This was voted for by 83% by socialist activists in July 2026 as part of the socialist project, serving as the party's ideological roadmap. Behind this "ecological socialism" is a "socialism which advocates a mode of production and consumption which is compatible with planetary limits" as well as a "popular ecology which takes into account social inequalities in the face of global warming", explains to franceinfo Chloé Ridel, socialist MEP in charge of national coordination of the socialist project.

Articulated around the idea of ​​"ecological bifurcation", it aims to "adapt our resources, our habitats, our housing, our modes of transport, our economy" to the climate emergency, explains to franceinfo Sébastien Vincini, socialist president of the department of Haute-Garonne and co-author of the ecological component of the socialist project. A transversal project, one of the central ideas of which is based on “environmental security”, like social security in the health sector. Accompanied by a "climate security fund", this aims to "compensate people and activities victims of the consequences of global warming", details MEP Chloé Ridel, and will be financed by taxes as well as by a "carbon tax which will weigh on the largest emitters".

Another subject at the heart of the project, that of a "new social contract for transport", at a time when aid for the purchase or rental of an electric car has been renewed by the government since Tuesday September 1. On the socialist side, the idea is also based on "social leasing which allows access to an electric vehicle for €100 per month as a priority for both low-income and middle-class households as well as those who live in areas where we depend on the car, therefore rural and peri-urban areas", affirms Chloé Ridel. “We want to nationalize the highways and reinvest part of the profits that would emerge from them in the train, at all levels the TER, the TGV, the night trains and align the taxation of kerosene for planes with the taxation that we apply to oil”, continues the elected member of the European Parliament.

“Climatic disasters have been taking place throughout the summer. Resources have been very weakened, it impacts our economy and slows it down, there is a necessity there. Climate debt will be much more costly than debt or an investment.”

Sébastien Vincini, socialist president of the Haute-Garonne department and spokesperson for Olivier Faure during the Socialist Party primary.

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“We must understand that today, the emergency is climatic. It is already there, it was described by scientists around twenty years ago, warns Sébastien Vincini. This is not the first time that we have experienced heatwave episodes, major fires, floods, bad weather, tornadoes. But here, they have taken on an amplitude and a dimension where more than 80 departments were concerned”.

From transport to the financing of departmental fire centers through the eradication of PFAS (or eternal pollutants) at the dawn of 2030, this "ecological socialism" is based on "a reoriented taxation, where we stop exemptions and where we no longer give gifts to entire sections of the economy which are not favorable to ecology", adds Sébastien Vincini, also spokesperson of Olivier Faure during the socialist primary.

Ecology, an essential theme on the left for the 2027 presidential election

During their respective political returns, rebels and environmentalists argued over the primacy of this subject on which the two parties have converged for many years.

In the event of victory in the presidential election, the four-time rebellious candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon said he was "ready" to put in place "his ecological state", in his speech in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (Drôme). Also a candidate in the national election, the boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier recalled the need to "mark the occasion" on climate issues, in Grenoble (Isère), while her party is torn over whether or not to join LFI in view of the presidential election.

Overtaken on their left by the two groups which imposed their proposals on ecology in the public debate during the summer, the socialists in turn intend to "influence the debate of ideas on the left" thanks to this "ecological socialism", affirms Chloé Ridel. Enough to augur a presidential campaign partly focused on the climate challenge, on the left.