{"id":424332,"date":"2026-04-30T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:08:09","slug":"france-details-plan-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424332\/","title":{"rendered":"France details plan to phase out fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France announced a plan to phase out fossil fuels completely by 2050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While other legislatures have similarly ambitious aims \u2014 the EU and UK both plan to reach net zero by 2050, which functionally requires ending fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What is new is the granularity: The roadmap specifically targets an end to coal by 2030, oil by 2045, and natural gas by 2050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France can make such commitments more credibly than comparable countries because nuclear provides so much of its electricity; in Britain or Germany, gas is doing more work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Even so, the country\u2019s cuts to greenhouse emissions slowed in 2025 for the second year in a row, and \u201c<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/energies\/article\/2026\/04\/29\/france-unveils-plan-to-ditch-all-fossil-fuels-by-2050_6752950_98.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:remain well below what is needed to meet its climate goals;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">remain well below what is needed to meet its climate goals<\/a>,\u201d Le Monde reported.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"France energy emissions chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"739\" height=\"626\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7563f60dc698863516111dce82908314.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>France energy emissions chart<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/tom-chivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Tom Chivers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tom Chivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France announced a plan to phase out fossil fuels completely by 2050. While other legislatures have similarly ambitious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,8863,1814,61,60,185661,82],"class_list":["post-424332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-france","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-legislatures","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}