On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron <\/b>was re-elected France’s president, beating far-right and anti-EU candidate Marine Le Pen.<\/b><\/p>\n
“Making France a great green nation, that is our project,” <\/span>Macron tweeted<\/span><\/a> on the night of his victory, after he received 58.5% of the votes against 40.5% for Le Pen \u2013 a lower margin than in the 2017 election, when he got 66% of the votes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the election campaign, Macron declared he would make France “the first major nation to abandon gas, oil and coal.”<\/span><\/p>\n While climate advocates are breathing a sigh of relief that Le Pen – who threatened to dismantle wind turbines – lost, Macron’s climate record to date has fallen short of the rhetoric.<\/p>\n Coming to power in 2017 on a promise to “make climate great again”, Macron inherited an underperforming state. France was <\/span>successfully sued<\/span><\/a> for failing to meet its 2015-18 emissions objectives and is is the only EU member state to have missed its 2020 renewable energy target<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n After five years in power, the government remains off <\/a>track to meet its 40% emissions reduction target by 2030 <\/span>compared to 1990 levels<\/span> \u2013 a goal which it will need to ramp up to align with the EU\u2019s collective goal of at least 55% cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n