France has yet to ratify the Kyoto Protocol (it plans to later this year), but on January 19 it announced a comprehensive national strategy to stabilize the country’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012. The plan includes about 100 measures, including a carbon tax beginning in 2001. A ton of carbon will be taxed from euros 23 – euros 30 (~$23-~$31), increasing to euros 76 by 2010. Energy-intensive industries will be exempt if they voluntarily reduce emissions.
The plan includes support for renewable energy, tax breaks for energy efficiency in buildings, and requires methane recovery from landfills.
Learn more about France’s climate change plan, if you can read French.
(Visited 50 times, 4 visits today)
Loading...