Question 10857 — environment

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Ms. Julie Laernoes questions the Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature on France's position in the revision of European climate objectives for 2040. Faced with the rapid worsening of the climate crisis and the multiplication of extreme events in Europe, the European Commission proposed, on July 2, 2025, a revision of European law on climate (Regulation (EU) 2021/1119), to include a new intermediate objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% by 2040, in order to maintain a credible trajectory towards climate neutrality. During the European Council of October 23, 2025, after numerous blockages and multiple procrastination, the European Heads of State and Government attached their agreement in principle to this new target of several substantial reservations, still imprecise, which would limit its scope, namely the possibility of integrating up to 3% of international carbon credits into national balance sheets and the introduction of a review clause which would make it possible to subsequently adjust the -90% target. These provisions must now be examined by the environment ministers of the Member States, at the Council of November 4, 2025, at a few days before the opening of COP 30 in Belém, Brazil. In this context, France's recent positions raise questions. While the country had played a leading role in the launch of the European Green Deal, the Head of State recently called on several occasions for more “flexibility” and “simplification” in the implementation of European climate policies, thus moving closer to the positions of the Member States most reluctant to take ambitious climate action. The MP therefore wishes to know what the precise position of the Government is regarding the setting of the European objective of reducing emissions by 90% by 2040. She asks how France intends to preserve its climate credibility in the run-up to COP 30, ten years after the Paris Agreement, in a context of questioning growing environmental policies within the European Union.

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