ISBN : 9782296551947
CLIMATE POLICY IN FRANCE: BETWEEN NATIONAL INTEREST AND GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
is article investigates the evolving relationships between national interests and the global solidarity principles emerging from the UNFCCC. It argues that France developed a distinctive climate policy template, which allowed modest but significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. However, faced with heigh- tened climate challenges, policy elites in the s hesitated between focusing on long-standing national interests and rescuing the policy template, or responding to global solidarity principles and substantially revising it. e article concludes that ambitious policy measures were proposed but not implemented due to the persistence of a construal of national interest in terms of short-term economic competitiveness, but also because of the underdevelopment of the international climate regime between the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Accord....