“To achieve our objectives in 2030, we must double the pace of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions”, warned the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, before the National Council for Ecological Transition.
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Transport, buildings, agriculture, industry... All sectors will have to do their part if France wants to reach the 2030 target, a step on the path to carbon neutrality that the European Union (EU) seeks to achieve by mid-century.
Until now, Paris aspired to a 40% reduction in emissions, but managed to reduce emissions by just 25% in 2022. To achieve the objective, it will have to do in the next eight years what it did in the last 32.
In the transport sector, which represents more than 30% of emissions, the government is betting on electric cars and shared vehicles, but also on measures to supply goods in a context of rising home deliveries.
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President Emmanuel Macron's government also defends the efficient renovation of housing and changes in heating, gradually leaving diesel and gas-powered heaters behind. In agriculture, the plan targets livestock and nitrogen fertilizers.
After the publication of the plan, of which many measures are already being implemented, a series of meetings will be held to finalize it before a meeting chaired by Macron.
One of the main outstanding issues is how to finance billions of euros in public and private investments to implement the measures.
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