PARIS,  – France outperformed its target for reducing carbon emissions in 2019, President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday, four days after a court rapped the state for not respecting its own climate targets. “France reduced its greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 by -1.7%. It is beyond our objective!” Macron wrote on Twitter. Earlier, Environment Minister Barbara Pompili was quoted in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper on the figures, saying the reduction allowed France to exceed the target of 1.5 percent. In June 2020, the national emissions inventory agency … Continue reading France exceeded CO2 reduction target in 2019: Macron