PCP
The climate framework exists; pathways still need building
The Climate and Innovation Act and its ordinance have applied since 1 January 2025. The FOEN describes separate instruments: decarbonisation support for installations subject to mandatory emissions trading, and innovative technologies and processes under climate legislation. Criteria and application routes differ.
These instruments do not automatically guarantee jobs. They create a financial lever. The PCP proposes pairing technical roadmaps with negotiated employment and skills plans before decisions affecting posts.
Begin with the process rather than a technology label
Boiler replacement, process electrification and treatment of process emissions face different constraints. Temperature, continuity, available energy and avoidable demand matter. A green label does not make equipment appropriate everywhere.
The PCP supports public expertise comparing alternatives with engineers and workers. Energy, emissions, safety and future dependencies count. Capture cannot replace examining possible reduction; electrification requires a connection and viable energy supply.
Training must precede disappearing duties
Where operation or maintenance changes, requiring adaptation only after reorganisation shifts risk to staff. The PCP proposes paid learning time with identified skills, stages and professionally usable recognition.
Those exposed to change, including supporting occupations and subcontractors, must participate. A short safety presentation added to unchanged workloads is insufficient. Plans should specify cover during learning and opportunities to practise new skills.
Protecting employment does not freeze every action
Conversion can remove operations and create others. Defending workers means discussing duties, qualifications and schedules and seeking solutions without imposed income loss or abandonment. The PCP supports negotiated retention, redeployment and funded support commitments.
Authorities cannot promise every activity remains unchanged. They can require supported companies to present decisions, alternatives and guarantees. Workers need information early enough to influence choices, not merely consultation on consequences already fixed.
Public resources should finance additional change
The FOEN programme requires, among other conditions, measures that would not occur without support or not at the same scale. Additionality asks what funding actually changes.
The PCP proposes verifiable payment stages and recovery where contractual commitments are unmet, within competent legal frameworks. Scrutiny should cover commissioned equipment, reductions and professional commitments. Previously planned spending does not become a public success merely by adding a new funding logo.
Do not export emissions with jobs
A closure can reduce territorial emissions while the same production continues elsewhere. Strategy must therefore specify scope: site, company and relevant supply. It cannot claim whole-chain measurement without data.
The PCP supports converting useful capacity rather than merely removing it. Production alternatives, material needs and territorial effects require comparison. Retaining a site does not excuse emissions; reducing emissions does not excuse ignoring production’s destination.
Retain repair knowledge
Purchases must include documentation, parts, maintenance and training. Complete supplier dependence can obstruct adaptation and make failures costly. Contracts and cooperation should retain local diagnostic and repair skills.
The PCP also supports open scientific and industrial cooperation with China and other partners around joint research, qualifications, compatible standards and maintenance. This invents no existing agreement and implies no wholesale institutional transfer. Cooperation should expand skills and teams’ autonomy.