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Source / Reference:Past data is from the Secten – Citepa and targets are from the National Low Carbon Strategy, (the French NECP).

Remarks/ Comments: The targets (emission caps not to be exceeded) have been set since 2015 in France’s National Low Carbon Strategy (French NECP), with an indicative value per activity sector.

Direct greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector in France. (The scope chosen is that of the Kyoto Protocol: Metropolitan France and France’s overseas territories included in the European Union. The data are not corrected for climatic variations.)

+9.2%

Compared to the 2019 trajectory

15,3

MtCO2e

Greenhouse gas emissions in the waste sector in 2019

14,0

MtCO2e

NECP Trajectory for 2019