Opinion | Behold Your Green Future in Detail
Opinion by The Editorial Board • 13h
Europe’s leaders can’t resist touching the hot (electric) stove again and again. Expensive and invasive policies to tackle climate change scramble one election after another, yet French President Emmanuel Macron thinks his country’s latest climate “roadmap” will be more popular?
Maybe or maybe not, but his administration published it anyway. France is subject to the European Union’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and the government periodically issues plans explaining how the country will get there. The theme this year is that net zero is going to touch every corner of life and then some—and will it ever.
Paris contemplates regulating delivery and return services for e-commerce to ensure carbon compliance, urging consumers instead to repair defective products rather than replacing them. Fancy a steak frites or a duck à l’orange? Not anymore: Paris will insist you switch to vegetarian ratatouille to limit the carbon footprint of your diet.
How the French travel and where they go will have to change too. The roadmap envisions more electric vehicles, stiff penalties for driving older cars, promotion of remote work to cut down on commutes, fewer business trips and vacations abroad, and denser housing.
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