France

In 2019, France decreased its gross greenhouse gas emissions compared to the year before, but only by 1% in net emissions. A decrease in emissions reductions may be encouraging but it is not enough to comply with its current NECP targets.

With regard to sectoral emissions (excluding LULUCF), France has reached its 2019 targets and is emitting fewer greenhouse gas than its target. It should be noted that the objectives should be revised upwards when the NECP is revised.

In addition, several sectors fail to meet the trajectories and remain in the red, such as transport , industry and waste. The buildings, agriculture and energy conversion sectors have a larger decrease than foreseen by the revised NECP.

One of the key objectives that has not been reached is the share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy. France was supposed to achieve a 19.8% share but it was only 17.2% in 2019. Given this trend, the compulsory 2020 objective of 23% will not be reached.

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NOTE: When targets or projections from NECP or from another sectoral strategy document are available, the tool calculates the difference between the realised data and the target in percentage. The percentages that can be found on the country pages and on the right side of each graph are based on this calculation. If the country does not have projections or targets for the year of the latest realised data, the percentages do not exist.