Thousands March In France For Real Action On Climate Change

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other French cities on Sunday to call for more ambitious measures in the fight against climate change.

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Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other French cities on Sunday to call for more ambitious measures in the fight against climate change.

The nationwide protests come after the lower house of parliament this week approved a climate bill to curb greenhouse gas emissions that environment activists say doesn’t go far or fast enough.

A group of climate campaigners, “Ensemble pour le climat” or “Together for climate” said the proposed law is a climatic and social failure while Greenpeace France denounced government’s refusal to take action for climate.

Activists blame President Emmanuel Macron, who has been very vocal about his support for climate change action, for having “weakened” a set of measures initially proposed by a panel of 150 citizens who had worked for months on the issue.

Seeking the upper hand in what could be a key issue in next year’s elections, the president promised a referendum on the bill if it gained approval in both houses of parliament.

The National Assembly, where Macron has a majority, overwhelmingly voted in favour of the revision in March, but on Monday, the bill goes to the Senate, where the right-wing Republicans hold the majority.

Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, a National Assembly deputy for Macron’s LREM party charged on Sunday saying they have already decided “to empty the bill of its substance”,

He warned in the JDD weekly that changes “will prevent the agreement,” as under French law a referendum can go ahead only if it is approved in identical wording by both houses of parliament.

Macron’s office responded by telling Newsmen that the plan to change to constitution was “in no way buried”.


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