France - rising to the international climate challenge
France has made substantial cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions: in 2010, with emissions 6.6% below 1990 levels. France is thus contributing to the commitment made by the European Union and its Member States under the Kyoto Protocol but also under the EU Climate and Energy Package (-20% in 2020 compared to 1990).
Implementing the Kyoto Protocol is only the first phase of a real national low-carbon transition policy, designed to achieve the longer term goal of meeting the climate challenge at the international level. A challenge which requires halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 compared to 1990 in order to keep global warming under 2°C by the end of this century. For France, as a developed country, this means achieving a fourfold reduction in its own emissions by 2050, as outlined by law.
That is why, following the road map for an ecological transition of September 2012, France will defend at European level the intermediate reduction targets of -40% by 2030, then -60% by 2040.
Read the leaflet "France - Rising to the international climate challenge"