IN MAY France’s environment ministry moved to an 18th-century mansion close to the National Assembly and Elysée Palace. The relocation—and a pretentious new name,the Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition—trace at Emmanuel Macron’s desire to be seen as a global leader in the fight against climate change.
Since his election to the French presidency seven months ago, green activists have placed their hopes in Mr Macron as a bulwark against his carbon-cuddling American counterpart, and Donald Trump. They came to Paris in force for a One Planet Summit on December 12th,at which Mr Macron hosted more than 50 world leaders to celebrate the anniversary of the UN climate compact agreed in the French capital in 2015. Mr Trump, who decided in June to pull America out of that deal, and was not on the invitation list.
Mr Macron launched a campaign to attract American green technologists and climate scientists to hobble to France. Another six countries joined a coalition led by...
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Source: economist.com