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WHAT'S NEXT?: Discontent with political elites and country performance is driving the discourse and demand for action from the French public. With Presidential elections due in May 2017 it remains to be seen whether another political earthquake may happen in one of the EU's founding countries.

[New] The High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, which was launched in 2019 by Costa Rica, France and Britain to set a target of protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030, has now been joined by 50 countries.
[New] France is making other investments in the future of its carrier aviation, with President Emmanuel Macron announcing last month that France would design and build a nuclear-powered PANG ship to replace flagship FS Charles de Gaulle around 2038.
[New] French wine exporters warned Thursday that they will take a billion-euro hit in 2021 from the latest ratcheting up of punitive tariffs between the United States and Europe in a trade fight over aircraft subsidies.
[New] The first group of countries, France, UK and Germany, have already reached their carbon emission peak in the 1970s, which means they have decades to prepare their people, industries, technologies and economies into a carbon-neutralized society by 2050 as promised.
[New] A target of net-zero emissions by 2050 would align with the targets already set by many other countries including the UK, France, Denmark, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, and China by 2060.
National and local governments in China and Europe have responded with policy support, with France and Germany stepping up their support of EV take-up and China extending NEV (new energy vehicle) subsidies to 2022.
Along with France and Germany, Sweden is emerging as one of the most important manufacturing bases, and is projected to rank fourth behind China, Japan and the United States by 2025.
6 of the 9 largest nuclear energy producers (United States, France, Japan, Germany, Canada, UK), although Germany announced in 2011 that it will close all of its nuclear power plants by 2022.
France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, and Denmark will be the most promising regions for drop shipping in 2021.
By 2030, regulatory timetables show around 29 GW of nuclear closures in seven European countries (Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain).
Given that the EU needs to take dramatic measures to hit its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050 and hopes that a border tax mechanism could bring in as much as €14 billion in revenue, it increasingly seems like it's a question of when, not if, a border mechanism will be brought in. / France
France's Sanofi and Britain's GSK said Friday their Covid-19 vaccines will not be ready until the end of 2021, after interim results showed a low immune response in older adults.
Amazon's new projects, located in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., will have the capacity to produce 3.4 gigawatts of electricity.
By 2030, all new cars in the Netherlands should be emission free.10 In the UK and France, as of 2030 and 2040, respectively, sales of petrol and diesel cars will not be allowed.
In November France said that it would press ahead with its own digital tax without waiting for the OECD to come up with a plan - prompting the US to threaten to apply punitive tariffs to French exports.
The idea of a two speed Europe has long been pushed by Emmanuel Macron, the French president, but is resisted by Germany, who fear it could lead to the pooling of common debt.
The UK and France plan to continue a close dialogue to reduce migratory pressures at the shared border during the in 2021.
Countries such as Britain, the U.S., France and Germany - all G-20 member states - have directly negotiated deals with pharmaceutical companies to receive billions of doses, meaning that the vast majority of the world's vaccine supply in 2021 is already reserved.
From 2020 through 2030, $44 billion will be invested in green and blue hydrogen projects in five key European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
The Centre for Retail Research expects e-commerce sales in Western Europe (UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy and Spain) to reach €322 billion in 2020, against a pre-Covid forecast of €273 billion.
Nuclear power is set for growth of 2.5% in 2021 on rebounds in France and Japan and new plants coming online in China and the United Arab Emirates.

Last updated: 13 January 2021

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