Gabriel Attal announced, during a meeting in Mayenne, that greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5.8% in France in 2023 compared to 2022, a better figure than expected, citing a new forecast of the Interprofessional Technical Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (Citepa), the organization mandated to carry out this inventory, Wednesday May 22. Citepa estimated, during a first provisional estimate in March, this drop in 2023 at 4.8%.
This decline comes after a decline of 2.7% over the whole of 2022. “We have no lessons to take from anyone in terms of ecological and environmental efficiency,” added the Prime Minister, while the majority list for the European elections on June 9 is closely followed by that of the Socialist Party and Place publique led by Raphaël Glucksmann.
France intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% (?55% net) by 2030 to comply with European commitments, which implies considerably increasing the rate of reductions. By 2050, it aims for carbon neutrality.
Faced with the government’s satisfaction, environmental NGOs judge that these declines are above all cyclical (mild winter, economic slowdown, etc.). Some of them are taking the State to court in a procedure nicknamed “the case of the century” to force it to make up for the delay accumulated over the period 2015-2018.
