Tag: France

"Recycling is necessary but not sufficient. We absolutely must cut off the flow and have more stringent measures against over-packaging and disposable objects."

France hopes to become carbon neutral by 2050.

The plan is part of France’s commitment to the Paris climate agreement, and their larger plan of weaning the French economy from fossil fuels.

France intends to end oil and gas exploration in French territory, eliminate coal-fired power plants by 2022 and encourage homeowners to produce their own energy.

The days of unfettered fossil fuel extraction are over.

Demonstrators say their first taste of activism for the French election has inspired them to carry on.

Was France’s presidential contest a setback for the new nationalism?

Macron favors continued French intervention in West Africa and Mali in order to “eradicate the threat at its origin.”

Are Western democracies under attack from Russia and the alt-right in America, in an effort to put racist nationalists in power?

Many residents of France are in fact wondering how the country reached its current stage, with an extreme-right candidate again making it to the second round of French presidential elections.