LET'S REDOUBLE EFFORTS

LET US MAKE THE COMING DECADE A TIME OF COLLECTIVE SUCCESS

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It has been ten years since COP21 in Paris, where 195 states made a historic commitment to work together to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures well below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to no more than 1.5℃. France played its full part in making this great moment of cooperation and universal solidarity a success. A decade later, we can be proud of how far we have come. In France, we have reduced our greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% compared with 1990, including 20% between 2017 and 2024. We went from a reduction of less than 1% per year before 2017 to annual reductions of more than 2% on average from 2017 to 2021 - and more than 4% on average between 2022 and 2024. Our goal is a 50% reduction by 2030, which means 270 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere every year.

These results are France's collective achievement - the success of our unique approach to ecology, which combines progress and protection, and enables us to reduce both emissions and unemployment at the same time. We never impose a rule without providing an accessible alternative. We refuse to sacrifice our competitiveness. We aim to combine sovereignty, employment, and decarbonization. How? Through clear choices. I have placed ecology at the heart of all our economic, planning, energy, agricultural, and industrial policies. I have also directly tasked the Prime Minister with ecological and energy planning. The just-published National Low-Carbon Strategy is a case in point: it sets our course toward carbon neutrality, shaping all our policies.

We rely on six essential principles: