A few months before the 2007 presidential election, political journalists, who are generally not very good at physical science, and who were poorly informed about climate issues, were offered by the Hulot Foundation an informal meeting with a certain Jean-Marc Jancovici .
They came away, for the most part, convinced that man-made global warming - based on hydrocarbon extraction - was an indisputable reality.
That year, and the following, the Hulot Foundation and its president succeeded in influencing the presidential program, and Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to set a large part of the requests made at the time to music.
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This gave rise to the “Grenelle de l'environnement”, but also, in 2009, during the French presidency of the Council of the European Union, to the European agreement on the reduction of the use of coal.
In the years that followed, Jean-Marc Jancovici continued, with others, to influence the media and political leaders...
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