The president affirms that the country must accelerate “by two” the reduction of polluting gases to meet the objectives set for 2030
French President Emmanuel Macron stressed this Saturday that, despite the fact that his country has made notable progress in reducing carbon emissions in recent years, the objectives for 2030 will not be achieved unless the reduction effort is multiplied by two. “Our CO2 emissions go down. But not fast enough. To be successful, we need to redouble our efforts,” Macron said on his Twitter account, posting an explanatory video on France’s ecological progress and goals for the coming years.
Specifically, Macron used social networks to specify, in a direct but relaxed tone, that France’s goal for 2030 is a maximum annual emission of 270 megatons of CO2, while the current level is 410 million tons in 2022. It means that, despite the fact that in the last five years the French were “twice as fast” in the rate of reduction of emissions than the average of the previous years, according to the data presented by Macron, the country would not achieve its goal unless that speed is multiplied by two again.
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“With ecological planning we are going to carry out something that has to be more than a transition: a turnaround,” promised the French leader. Macron spoke of intensifying efforts to electrify the vehicle fleeta sector in which the reductions have not yet been significant, while he celebrated the good results on other fronts, such as initiatives to promote energy sobriety.
Other plans that Macron advanced in his video were plant a million trees, produce more energy through nuclear meansdecarbonization measures for the industry and accelerate strategies to achieve more energy efficient buildings.