Macron launches ‘ecological plan’ to end France’s use of fossil fuels by 2030
Macron launches ‘ecological plan’ to end France’s use of fossil fuels by 2030
50-point plan also aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% and includes new offshore wind projects
I assume like every other country's big climate plans they'll announce it, do nothing and then back pedal on it 2 years from now.
Credit for goals hit, not just stated.
It's already what's happening here. Coal phase out in France was due 2023.
It's already planning to do almost nothing. Most of the plan will rely on people replacing their cars with electric ones, and their fuel heaters with heat pumps.
Credit for actually reducing emissions. It is better to fail a 80% reduction target with a 78% reduction, then to hit a 25% target perfectly.
We're literally about to enter a runaway climate catastrophe, and we're only catching up with the last 20 years of emissions now. If we stopped burning all fossil fuels world wide tomorrow, it would take 20 years for the effects to stop. We are far past fucked my friend.
Stupid little question, but how this:
It was essential, he said, that “France reduces our dependence on so-called fossil fuels, coal, petrol and gas, which we don’t produce any more but on which we depend”. The aim, he added, was to reduce this dependence from 60% to 40% by 2030.
The same as no fossil fuels by 2030. If you are 40% dependent on fossil fuels by 2030, you are still using fossil fuels or am I somehow mistaken.
I am guessing it is no fossil fuels in the electricity grid by 2030, but that is just a guess.
Not that far! Only no coal in electricity is planned...
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Also glad to know he loves cars...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a national “ecological plan” to reduce France’s greenhouse gas emissions by 55% and end the use of fossil fuels by 2030.
Speaking after a special ministerial council at the Elysée, the French president said an extra €10bn (£8.7bn) would be put towards the 50-point programme, which he described as “ecology à la Française”.
The plan was aimed at addressing the climate crisis while ensuring that France remained competitive in agriculture and industry, said Macron.
Other measures in the plan include the acceleration of electric car production, with brakes on gas boilers, though the president stopped short of a total ban.
It also includes new projects for offshore windfarms, the opening of several electric battery factories in northern France, a map to establish where natural resources can be found in France, including hydrogen gas and essential elements for lithium batteries, and €700m state investment in the regional train network.
Antoine Pellion was tasked with “coordinating the development of national strategies in the fields of climate, energy, biodiversity and the circular economy”.
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