is France deviating from its trajectory?

This is probably not the gift that the Ministry of Ecological Transition was expecting for Christmas. The decline in French greenhouse gas emissions is slowing. They decreased by 2.4% over the first three quarters of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, excluding carbon sinks. This reduction turns out to be much less strong than that recorded (− 6%) during the first nine months of 2023 compared to 2022. In detail, carbon emissions were reduced in the first two quarters of 2024 (respectively − 5% and − 2.2%) but increased slightly in the third quarter (+ 0.5%), according to provisional data published by the Interprofessional Technical Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (Citepa), Friday December 27.

Compliance with France’s climate objectives implies a pace twice as fast, since it involves reducing emissions by 4.7% per year on average between 2022 and 2030. In 2023, they had fallen by 5.8%. compared to 2022, with a decline in all major emitting sectors, a good result.

“This slowdown, fortunately, still leaves us on the right trajectory. Given the efforts we have made over the past two years, we are not falling behinddeclared Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Friday on RTL. But it reminds us that we must not let our guard down. »

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