Alasdair MacEwen of Culmer Raphael reflects on how the
French government has strengthened its green economy ahead of the Paris Summit
with sweeping new legislation
The French legislature has just passed into law the "energy
transition for green growth" Bill. Ecology minister Ségolène Royal
describes it as "the most advanced and ambitious piece of environmental
legislation in Europe, and probably the world" – this is, perhaps, an
exaggeration - but it could still end up as one of France’s most significant
Bills in decades. And it has put Royal in the spotlight ahead of December's
COP21 meeting in Paris.
