The new provisions are part of French president Macron’s large-scale plan to heavily invest in renewables, which aims to multiply by 10 the amount of solar energy produced in the country.
President Macron vowed to replant 1 billion trees within 10 years, or 10% of the French forest, after massive summer wildfires ravaged huge areas of the country, especially in the southwest.
A French research company interviewed more than 4,000 adults across France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. More than 50% reported having reduced their meat consumption in the last five years largely for environmental, animal welfare, and personal health reasons.
The recent test flight is part of Airbus’ policy of reaching certification of 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 2030 for both commercial aircraft and helicopters.
Monitors have identified 70 individuals in 2021, with 114 newborns since launch of repopulation scheme in 1996.
France passed its first ban on men who have sex with men donating blood in 1983, in the early years of the AIDS crisis.
Conversion therapy practitioners can face prison time and fines because “homosexuality and trans identity aren’t sicknesses that can be cured.”
An entry for iel and iels was added to the dictionary Le Robert that says: “Third person subject personal pronoun – singular and plural – used to refer to a person of any gender.”
In a new initiative to update its existing Plan Velo for a more cycle-friendly city, Paris, France is investing 250 million euros ($290 million) to make the city entirely bikeable.
France’s environment ministry expects that the measure will prevent more than one billion useless plastic packaging items per year.
