France continues to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions even if its efforts need to be supported. This is essentially the point of the latest Citepa report, published Monday October 1, which notes a drop of 4.3% over the first six months of 2023 compared to 2022.
Main black spot on the board: the “post-crisis rebound in air transport”, which is still continuing with a 25% increase in emissions for domestic flights, and 34% for international flights.
It is the industrial sectors, with -10%, electricity production, with -8%, and construction, with -7%, which are responsible for this decline, these markets having been strongly impacted by the energy crisis. .
Another positive point of the report: the continued decline in fine particle emissions, which have fallen by almost 19% in less than six months.
If the news is good to take, France will have to accelerate if it intends to meet the objective of a 55% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 1990. In essence, it will have to go “twice as fast” , as Emmanuel Macron indicated at the end of September.