France’s Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili and the Secretary of State for Digital, Cédric O, unveiled on Tuesday (23 February) the government’s national strategy to bring environmental and digital issues together. EURACTIV France was able to see the document before publication.
With digital technologies being responsible for 5-10% of the pollution in France, the government is due to announce several measures to improve the sector’s ecological footprint on Tuesday (23 February).
This new roadmap is developed along three lines: “develop knowledge of the digital environmental footprint”, “support a more sober digital environment” and “make digital technology a lever for the ecological and solidarity transition”.
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.”
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