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France Updates Net-Zero Plan, with Fossil Fuel Phaseout
France aims to increase renewable electricity to 55% by 2050 and phase out fossil gas and oil use to meet Paris Agreement goals, balancing emissions cuts with economic growth.
- On Friday, France released SNBC-3 as a roadmap to carbon neutrality by 2050, phasing out fossil gas by 2050 and ending oil use between 2040 and 2045.
- Unveiled on the Paris Agreement's 10th anniversary, SNBC-3 aims to guide France amid strained climate diplomacy after COP30 climate summit in Brazil last month failed to call for fossil fuel phaseout.
- The plan sets sectoral targets including raising electricity share to 55% by 2050 through renewables, shifting agriculture diets, lowering livestock emissions, and decarbonising the industrial sector.
- Public reaction was immediate as Greenpeace activists dumped orange paint on the Arc de Triomphe roundabout, while the French public remains divided and the far-right opposition calls the plan "punitive environmentalism."
- Framing the strategy as economic, Barbut told Les Echos, `It is first and foremost and economic and industrial recovery plan`, emphasizing tools like heat pumps and electric vehicles.
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On Friday, the government released France's updated strategy to become a "carbon neutral" in 2050, an extremely ambitious goal that includes the end of oil and gas.This three-year project...
France plans to phase out oil by 2045 and natural gas by 2050, according to an updated climate plan presented by the government today. It will also aim to increase the share of electricity in all energy consumption by 50% by 2050 compared to 2023, mainly through renewable energy sources.
France hopes, in particular, to emerge from oil by 2045, and fossil gas by 2050, while relying heavily on the decarbonization of its electricity production.
·Nancy, France
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right0Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution60% Left
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