The Minister of Ecological Transition announced on Wednesday March 20 that France’s greenhouse gas emissions had fallen by 4.8% in 2023, double the previous year. “It’s a record year,” welcomed Christophe Béchu on TF1, stressing that this drop recorded “in a single year” was almost equivalent to the “entire drop” recorded in France between 2012 and 2017. This drop in emissions “is valid in all sectors”, particularly with regard to buildings and industry, even if it is “more modest in transport”, “of the order of 2%”, indicated Christophe Béchu.
“This is proof that ecological planning, the measures that are being undertaken are starting to produce effects,” he affirmed, while believing that it was necessary to be “capable of maintaining” this rate of reduction in emissions. . EU countries, including France, are aiming for a 55% reduction in CO2 emissions in 2030 compared to 1990. By 2050, the country aims to be carbon neutral.
“The ambition of ecological planning given by the President of the Republic is to say that after having doubled the decline between 2017 and 2022, we must double it again between 2022 and 2030,” declared Wednesday Christophe Béchu. This decline comes after a decline of 4.6% already observed over the first nine months of 2023, itself following a decline of 2.7% over the whole of 2022.
Emmanuel Macron has announced since the start of his second term several “ecological planning” measures, including an exit from coal “by 2027”, an investment of 700 million euros in order to put “thirteen metropolitan RERs” on track. “, or the development of an industrial heat pump sector.