“No break in climate ambition” of France, ures Borne after Macron’s remarks

Small backpedaling from Reunion, on the position of the Head of State. This Saturday, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne ured that “there is no break at all in the climate ambition” of France, after controversial statements by Emmanuel Macron calling to stop producing new environmental standards in Europe.

The president spoke twice on the subject on Thursday and Friday when he presented plans for the reindustrialization of France. He thus considered that no more environmental standards should be “added” after the application of the European Union’s Green Deal, pleading for “stability” in this area.

The anger of environmental officials and activists

“You know that in recent years, under the impetus of France and the President of the Republic, we have carried out very ambitious policies on a European scale. It’s the Green deal (Green Pact) in particularit is the objective of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, ”said Elisabeth Borne in Saint-Paul, on the island of Reunion, where she is completing a three-day trip this Saturday.

“This legislation, it is ambitious, it allows us to meet our objectives, now we must work to implement it and it is already a very important task”, she added, believing that it was not useful to “add standards to standards”. Emmanuel Macron’s remarks aroused the anger of officials and environmental activists and questions in Brussels.

The “Green Pact” is the European Union’s package of key texts on the climate, most of which (reform of the carbon market, end of sales of thermal engine cars, etc.) have been adopted, but some of which are still the subject of difficult negotiations.