This is a bad step backwards in our climate goals. After two and a half years of uninterrupted decline in greenhouse gas emissions in France, they are starting to rise again. increase of 0.5% in the third quarter of 2024. What explains this poor performance? Who are the good and bad students?
The good students, or at least the least bad, those where there is progress, it is first of all in electricity production. We are using less and less fossil energy and more and more renewable and nuclear energy which are carbon-free.
Another “good student”, the national aviation sectorthat is to say the connections between French cities. The explanation is rather simple, very short flights are now prohibited if there is a good alternative by train.
+11% for construction
The main cause of this increase is the construction sector.. with an 11% increase in CO² in the third quarter of the year. The fault is heating, both in homes and in businesses. There has been a rebound in the installation of gas real estate boilers and the use of oil boilers.
Finally, another sector which weighed down our balance sheet, road transport. Traffic increased in the third quarter. This applies to travelers and goods.
we will have to push [les entreprises ] to play the game
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Ecological Transition
This Friday, December 27, on RTL, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, pulled the bosses’ ears. Because when we talk about pollution on the road, companies have a share of responsibility. “The slowdown in the transition to electric cars, particularly in businesses, businesses buy half as many electric cars as households, and so they are not playing the game, we will have to push them to play the game.”, recalled the minister.
Since 2019, all companies that have more than 100 vehicles have an obligation, which is to green their fleet, that is to say, to purchase a certain share of electric vehicles. However, according to a study by the NGO Transport Environnement, last year, 60% of the large companies concerned did not respect the law.
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