That’s the beauty of announcing this now: France can start exporting to other countries outside the G7 and offer cheap coal. Then France (or whichever G7 country) can wind down the coal production in line with the country’s domestic usage.
Now it isn’t lying when you say that coal production is down (happy enviros) and the country is doing it’s part to lower emissions (happy constituents). The numbers also show that hydrocarbon sales are up in foreign countries that have become addicted to cheap fuel (happy corps).
As long as you don’t look at the numbers going into this, it’s going to be a bundle of good news in 10 years. No actual change to the climate and global emissions but it looks good on paper!
That’s the beauty of announcing this now: France can start exporting to other countries outside the G7 and offer cheap coal. Then France (or whichever G7 country) can wind down the coal production in line with the country’s domestic usage.
Now it isn’t lying when you say that coal production is down (happy enviros) and the country is doing it’s part to lower emissions (happy constituents). The numbers also show that hydrocarbon sales are up in foreign countries that have become addicted to cheap fuel (happy corps).
As long as you don’t look at the numbers going into this, it’s going to be a bundle of good news in 10 years. No actual change to the climate and global emissions but it looks good on paper!