France’s High Climate Council (HCC) scrutinised the government’s “climate and resilience” bill and called for more ambition in an opinion published on Tuesday (23 February), warning that it “does not offer enough strategic scope.” EURACTIV France reports.
The bill, in its current form, according to the HCC – an independent body set up by President Emmanuel Macron to advise the government on climate policy – would not allow France to meet its targets set in the Paris Climate Agreement.
HCC President Corinne Le Quéré called out the text’s lack of “ambition” and reduced “scope of measures”. According to her, “the bill helps to move forward on steering measures that can strengthen the achievement of targets, but for the scope of greenhouse gas reduction measures themselves, there are many missed opportunities to accelerate the pace.”