We knew that France and its leaders had taken a bad habit in recent decades of letting the state budget slip away. It also lets its “carbon budget” slip, warns the International Energy Agency (IEA), in its five-year report on the country. Its CO2 emissions exceed the limits it has set for itself.
“In 2021, France will not meet its energy efficiency target, nor that in terms of the development of renewable energies, nor its objective of reducing CO2 emissions, all three set in 2015,”
writes the IEA . Who wants to be optimistic, however:
"France should be able to catch up in the coming years if the major reforms underway in energy are applied."
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Certainly, France is the country which emits the least CO2 per capita among the powers of the G7.
But it is not doing enough, far from it, to achieve the goals it has set itself to reduce its emissions,
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