French GHG Emissions Down 2.5% YOY In 2006, Aided By Warm Fall Weather - AFP

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French greenhouse gas emissions fell sharply in 2006, helped by a warmer fall, leaving the country well on course to meet its goals under the UN's Kyoto Protocol, France's ecology minister said Tuesday.

Carbon emissions were 2.5 percent lower in 2006 compared with 2005, and four percent lower than in 1990, the Protocol's benchmark year, Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told journalists at an annual reception. "France will be one of the few big economies to meet its Kyoto Protocol targets," Borloo said.

Under Kyoto, the European Union (EU) pledged to collectively curb its emissions by eight percent by 2012 compared to 1990.

The national target for France is zero percent, meaning that it pledged not to increase its emissions over the 22-year timescale.

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1. It must be rough though, to have to live next door to Germany.

I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, that this particular neighbor of France has been well - how shall we say this - "problematic" over the years.

France is quite simply the best prepared nation to deal with climate change and with the depletion of dangerous fossil fuels. No one else in Europe comes close.