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| Fri, 15th Oct 2021 14:45:00 |
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It’s Friday, October 15, and environmental groups in France have won another court ruling |
A French court has ordered the country to follow through on its commitments to addressing climate change. In the Thursday ruling, the Paris administrative tribunal found that France overshot its emissions targets by 15 million metric tons between 2015 and 2018 and ordered the government to take all necessary measures to “repair the damage” by the end of 2022.
The ruling is the latest development in a case brought by French environmental organizations in 2019 in an attempt to use the judicial system to force their country to take more concrete action against climate change. “Now the court system is becoming an ally in our fight against climate change,” Jean-François Julliard, director of Greenpeace France, told reporters following this week’s ruling.
The country’s leaders are clearly feeling the heat. Earlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the country will spend $34.6 billion over the next five years on nuclear reactors and green energy projects to decarbonize the nation’s industrial sector and reinvigorate its manufacturing base. The projects will spur the production of low-emission planes and electric cars and a “revolution in French agriculture,” according to the New York Times.
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