Bloomberg
Summary
France’s new government reaffirmed its plan to reduce carbon emissions and promote clean energy, even as it faced greater fiscal constraints and political challenges after the summer’s snap elections.
“We’re in a difficult budgetary situation,” Energy and Climate Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said in Paris on Monday as she launched a six-week public consultation over France’s 10-year energy plan and national strategy to fight global warming. Reducing emissions from cars, trucks and airlines “is probably one of the issues where the step is the steepest.”
France will continue to focus on renewables, nuclear power and energy-efficiency investments as it switches from fossil fuels to clean power, Pannier-Runacher said. That plan remains broadly unchanged from what was presented by the previous government a year ago.
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