France to ‘ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040’
F rance will outlaw the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, its fresh environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced.
It will also ban any “new project to use petrol, gas or coal”, as well as shale oil, by that date.
The radical measures were unveiled at a press conference as part of French president Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to “make the planet fine again”.
Mr Hulot, a former starlet wildlife TV presenter, announced “the end of the sale of petrol or vehicles inbetween now and 2040″ and a pledge to make France carbon neutral by 2050. “The carbon neutral objective will force us to make the necessary investments,” he added.
T he French will in the meantime be suggested financial incentives to scrap their polluting vehicles for clean alternatives, he said. Concretely, “the government will suggest each French person a bonus to substitute their diesel car dating before one thousand nine hundred ninety seven or petrol from before two thousand one by a fresh or second-hand vehicle,” he said.
The budge was, he said, a “veritable revolution”, adding that reaching the target would be “tough”, particularly for carmakers, but said that France’s car industry was well tooled to make the switch.
Peugeot, Citroen and Renault ranked very first, 2nd and third on a two thousand sixteen list of large car manufacturers with the lowest carbon emissions, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said.
M r Hulot cited the example of a “European maker” who had already determined to take the plunge. That was a reference to Volvo, which on Wednesday announced plans to build only electrified and hybrid vehicles embarking in 2019, making it the very first major automaker to abandon cars and SUVs powered solely by the internal combustion engine.
CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the budge was dictated by customer request. It means that in two years, all fresh Volvo vehicles will have some form of electrical propulsion.
“The solutions are there, our own makers have in their boxes the means to fulfill this promise,” said Mr Hulot, calling it a “public health” issue.
P aris, Lyon, Grenoble and other French cities have a chronic smog problem.
France is by no means the only country aiming to ban combustion-powered cars in some form. Germany wants to do away with one hundred per cent combustion-powered vehicles by 2030, as does India. The Netherlands and Norway wish to do so by 2025.
Diesel and gasoline vehicles represented about 95.Two percent of French fresh car fleets in the very first half of year, while electrical vehicles hold 1.Two percent of the market. Hybrid cars make up about Trio.Five percent.
Mr Hulot said that even if France lagged countries such as Sweden and Costa Rica on this front, it would nevertheless embrace that “spirit” and look to end the sale of diesel and petrol cars by 2040.
A mong the key policy proposals is the plan to end the delivery of hydrocarbon licences in France, with legislation to that effect due later this year.
The minister also said that France will stop producing power from coal-power stations – presently five per cent of the total – by 2022. The country also wants to reduce the proportion of its power from nuclear to fifty percent by 2025, from the current seventy five per cent.
France will also take measures to restrict the use of palm oil in the production of biofuels with the aim of reducing indirect deforestation.
Mr Macron promised to take a lead in fighting climate switch after US president president Donald Trump pulled out of the two thousand fifteen Paris climate accords. Aping the US president’s campaign slogan to “make America fine again”, Mr Macron promised to “make the planet excellent again” and invited US climate scientists to flock to France.
A sked about Mr Trump’s withdrawal, Mr Hulot said France intended to pursue “climate diplomacy” by supporting non-governmental organisations. “I don’t confuse the brutal attitude of the Trump administration with the US state of mind,” he said.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that albeit the French government had carried out the right analysis of the situation, it added: “We are left wanting, on how these objectives will be achieved.”
W orld Wildlife France was more upbeat, with its chief Pascal Canfin telling France Info radio: “We have every interest in being among the leaders.
“The sooner we invest, the sooner we will have the right technology and the better we will be placed on the industrial and job fronts.”
On Thursday, Mr Macron insisted that climate switch act need to go beyond the two thousand fifteen Paris agreement.
“The Paris agreement is. a step in the right direction but it is not enough and we need to proceed to advance and showcase, in terms of concrete plans and financing, our capability to go beyond it,” said the French president.
H e made the comments in a joint press call with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who said that, for his part, the World Bank rigidly backed the COP21 Paris climate switch agreement
France to – ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by two thousand forty
France to ‘ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040’
F rance will outlaw the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, its fresh environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced.
It will also ban any “new project to use petrol, gas or coal”, as well as shale oil, by that date.
The radical measures were unveiled at a press conference as part of French president Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to “make the planet good again”.
Mr Hulot, a former starlet wildlife TV presenter, announced “the end of the sale of petrol or vehicles inbetween now and 2040″ and a pledge to make France carbon neutral by 2050. “The carbon neutral objective will force us to make the necessary investments,” he added.
T he French will in the meantime be suggested financial incentives to scrap their polluting vehicles for clean alternatives, he said. Concretely, “the government will suggest each French person a bonus to substitute their diesel car dating before one thousand nine hundred ninety seven or petrol from before two thousand one by a fresh or second-hand vehicle,” he said.
The stir was, he said, a “veritable revolution”, adding that reaching the target would be “tough”, particularly for carmakers, but said that France’s car industry was well tooled to make the switch.
Peugeot, Citroen and Renault ranked very first, 2nd and third on a two thousand sixteen list of large car manufacturers with the lowest carbon emissions, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said.
M r Hulot cited the example of a “European maker” who had already determined to take the plunge. That was a reference to Volvo, which on Wednesday announced plans to build only electrical and hybrid vehicles kicking off in 2019, making it the very first major automaker to abandon cars and SUVs powered solely by the internal combustion engine.
CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the budge was dictated by customer request. It means that in two years, all fresh Volvo vehicles will have some form of electrical propulsion.
“The solutions are there, our own makers have in their boxes the means to fulfill this promise,” said Mr Hulot, calling it a “public health” issue.
P aris, Lyon, Grenoble and other French cities have a chronic smog problem.
France is by no means the only country aiming to ban combustion-powered cars in some form. Germany wants to do away with one hundred per cent combustion-powered vehicles by 2030, as does India. The Netherlands and Norway wish to do so by 2025.
Diesel and gasoline vehicles represented about 95.Two percent of French fresh car fleets in the very first half of year, while electrical vehicles hold 1.Two percent of the market. Hybrid cars make up about Trio.Five percent.
Mr Hulot said that even if France lagged countries such as Sweden and Costa Rica on this front, it would nevertheless embrace that “spirit” and look to end the sale of diesel and petrol cars by 2040.
A mong the key policy proposals is the plan to end the delivery of hydrocarbon licences in France, with legislation to that effect due later this year.
The minister also said that France will stop producing power from coal-power stations – presently five per cent of the total – by 2022. The country also wants to reduce the proportion of its power from nuclear to fifty percent by 2025, from the current seventy five per cent.
France will also take measures to restrict the use of palm oil in the production of biofuels with the aim of reducing indirect deforestation.
Mr Macron promised to take a lead in fighting climate switch after US president president Donald Trump pulled out of the two thousand fifteen Paris climate accords. Aping the US president’s campaign slogan to “make America excellent again”, Mr Macron promised to “make the planet fine again” and invited US climate scientists to flock to France.
A sked about Mr Trump’s withdrawal, Mr Hulot said France intended to pursue “climate diplomacy” by supporting non-governmental organisations. “I don’t confuse the brutal attitude of the Trump administration with the US state of mind,” he said.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that albeit the French government had carried out the right analysis of the situation, it added: “We are left wanting, on how these objectives will be achieved.”
W orld Wildlife France was more upbeat, with its chief Pascal Canfin telling France Info radio: “We have every interest in being among the leaders.
“The sooner we invest, the sooner we will have the right technology and the better we will be placed on the industrial and job fronts.”
On Thursday, Mr Macron insisted that climate switch activity need to go beyond the two thousand fifteen Paris agreement.
“The Paris agreement is. a step in the right direction but it is not enough and we need to proceed to advance and demonstrate, in terms of concrete plans and financing, our capability to go beyond it,” said the French president.
H e made the comments in a joint press call with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who said that, for his part, the World Bank rigidly backed the COP21 Paris climate switch agreement
France to – ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by two thousand forty
France to ‘ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040’
F rance will outlaw the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, its fresh environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced.
It will also ban any “new project to use petrol, gas or coal”, as well as shale oil, by that date.
The radical measures were unveiled at a press conference as part of French president Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to “make the planet superb again”.
Mr Hulot, a former starlet wildlife TV presenter, announced “the end of the sale of petrol or vehicles inbetween now and 2040″ and a pledge to make France carbon neutral by 2050. “The carbon neutral objective will force us to make the necessary investments,” he added.
T he French will in the meantime be suggested financial incentives to scrap their polluting vehicles for clean alternatives, he said. Concretely, “the government will suggest each French person a bonus to substitute their diesel car dating before one thousand nine hundred ninety seven or petrol from before two thousand one by a fresh or second-hand vehicle,” he said.
The stir was, he said, a “veritable revolution”, adding that reaching the target would be “tough”, particularly for carmakers, but said that France’s car industry was well tooled to make the switch.
Peugeot, Citroen and Renault ranked very first, 2nd and third on a two thousand sixteen list of large car manufacturers with the lowest carbon emissions, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said.
M r Hulot cited the example of a “European maker” who had already determined to take the plunge. That was a reference to Volvo, which on Wednesday announced plans to build only electrical and hybrid vehicles commencing in 2019, making it the very first major automaker to abandon cars and SUVs powered solely by the internal combustion engine.
CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the stir was dictated by customer request. It means that in two years, all fresh Volvo vehicles will have some form of electrified propulsion.
“The solutions are there, our own makers have in their boxes the means to fulfill this promise,” said Mr Hulot, calling it a “public health” issue.
P aris, Lyon, Grenoble and other French cities have a chronic smog problem.
France is by no means the only country aiming to ban combustion-powered cars in some form. Germany wants to do away with one hundred per cent combustion-powered vehicles by 2030, as does India. The Netherlands and Norway wish to do so by 2025.
Diesel and gasoline vehicles represented about 95.Two percent of French fresh car fleets in the very first half of year, while electrical vehicles hold 1.Two percent of the market. Hybrid cars make up about Trio.Five percent.
Mr Hulot said that even if France lagged countries such as Sweden and Costa Rica on this front, it would nevertheless embrace that “spirit” and look to end the sale of diesel and petrol cars by 2040.
A mong the key policy proposals is the plan to end the delivery of hydrocarbon licences in France, with legislation to that effect due later this year.
The minister also said that France will stop producing power from coal-power stations – presently five per cent of the total – by 2022. The country also wants to reduce the proportion of its power from nuclear to fifty percent by 2025, from the current seventy five per cent.
France will also take measures to restrict the use of palm oil in the production of biofuels with the aim of reducing indirect deforestation.
Mr Macron promised to take a lead in fighting climate switch after US president president Donald Trump pulled out of the two thousand fifteen Paris climate accords. Aping the US president’s campaign slogan to “make America fine again”, Mr Macron promised to “make the planet good again” and invited US climate scientists to flock to France.
A sked about Mr Trump’s withdrawal, Mr Hulot said France intended to pursue “climate diplomacy” by supporting non-governmental organisations. “I don’t confuse the brutal attitude of the Trump administration with the US state of mind,” he said.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that albeit the French government had carried out the right analysis of the situation, it added: “We are left wanting, on how these objectives will be achieved.”
W orld Wildlife France was more upbeat, with its chief Pascal Canfin telling France Info radio: “We have every interest in being among the leaders.
“The sooner we invest, the sooner we will have the right technology and the better we will be placed on the industrial and job fronts.”
On Thursday, Mr Macron insisted that climate switch activity need to go beyond the two thousand fifteen Paris agreement.
“The Paris agreement is. a step in the right direction but it is not enough and we need to proceed to advance and showcase, in terms of concrete plans and financing, our capability to go beyond it,” said the French president.
H e made the comments in a joint press call with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who said that, for his part, the World Bank stiffly backed the COP21 Paris climate switch agreement
France to – ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by two thousand forty
France to ‘ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040’
F rance will outlaw the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, its fresh environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced.
It will also ban any “new project to use petrol, gas or coal”, as well as shale oil, by that date.
The radical measures were unveiled at a press conference as part of French president Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to “make the planet superb again”.
Mr Hulot, a former starlet wildlife TV presenter, announced “the end of the sale of petrol or vehicles inbetween now and 2040″ and a pledge to make France carbon neutral by 2050. “The carbon neutral objective will force us to make the necessary investments,” he added.
T he French will in the meantime be suggested financial incentives to scrap their polluting vehicles for clean alternatives, he said. Concretely, “the government will suggest each French person a bonus to substitute their diesel car dating before one thousand nine hundred ninety seven or petrol from before two thousand one by a fresh or second-hand vehicle,” he said.
The budge was, he said, a “veritable revolution”, adding that reaching the target would be “tough”, particularly for carmakers, but said that France’s car industry was well tooled to make the switch.
Peugeot, Citroen and Renault ranked very first, 2nd and third on a two thousand sixteen list of large car manufacturers with the lowest carbon emissions, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said.
M r Hulot cited the example of a “European maker” who had already determined to take the plunge. That was a reference to Volvo, which on Wednesday announced plans to build only electrical and hybrid vehicles kicking off in 2019, making it the very first major automaker to abandon cars and SUVs powered solely by the internal combustion engine.
CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the budge was dictated by customer request. It means that in two years, all fresh Volvo vehicles will have some form of electrical propulsion.
“The solutions are there, our own makers have in their boxes the means to fulfill this promise,” said Mr Hulot, calling it a “public health” issue.
P aris, Lyon, Grenoble and other French cities have a chronic smog problem.
France is by no means the only country aiming to ban combustion-powered cars in some form. Germany wants to do away with one hundred per cent combustion-powered vehicles by 2030, as does India. The Netherlands and Norway wish to do so by 2025.
Diesel and gasoline vehicles represented about 95.Two percent of French fresh car fleets in the very first half of year, while electrified vehicles hold 1.Two percent of the market. Hybrid cars make up about Trio.Five percent.
Mr Hulot said that even if France lagged countries such as Sweden and Costa Rica on this front, it would nevertheless embrace that “spirit” and look to end the sale of diesel and petrol cars by 2040.
A mong the key policy proposals is the plan to end the delivery of hydrocarbon licences in France, with legislation to that effect due later this year.
The minister also said that France will stop producing power from coal-power stations – presently five per cent of the total – by 2022. The country also wants to reduce the proportion of its power from nuclear to fifty percent by 2025, from the current seventy five per cent.
France will also take measures to restrict the use of palm oil in the production of biofuels with the aim of reducing indirect deforestation.
Mr Macron promised to take a lead in fighting climate switch after US president president Donald Trump pulled out of the two thousand fifteen Paris climate accords. Aping the US president’s campaign slogan to “make America excellent again”, Mr Macron promised to “make the planet superb again” and invited US climate scientists to flock to France.
A sked about Mr Trump’s withdrawal, Mr Hulot said France intended to pursue “climate diplomacy” by supporting non-governmental organisations. “I don’t confuse the brutal attitude of the Trump administration with the US state of mind,” he said.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that albeit the French government had carried out the right analysis of the situation, it added: “We are left wanting, on how these objectives will be achieved.”
W orld Wildlife France was more upbeat, with its chief Pascal Canfin telling France Info radio: “We have every interest in being among the leaders.
“The sooner we invest, the sooner we will have the right technology and the better we will be placed on the industrial and job fronts.”
On Thursday, Mr Macron insisted that climate switch act need to go beyond the two thousand fifteen Paris agreement.
“The Paris agreement is. a step in the right direction but it is not enough and we need to proceed to advance and display, in terms of concrete plans and financing, our capability to go beyond it,” said the French president.
H e made the comments in a joint press call with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who said that, for his part, the World Bank tightly backed the COP21 Paris climate switch agreement
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