French climate bill gets parliament OK despite green opposition

Paris (AFP) May 4, 2021

French lawmakers on Tuesday approved a new law to limit climate change that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will burnish his green credentials ahead of elections next year, though critics say the measures fall short of what is necessary. Macron's centrist majority assured, as expected, the bill's passage in the lower-house National Assembly, but it now faces a tougher vote in the Senate, dom