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Published: October 26th, 2007

Nicolas SarkozyAt France’s environmental policy making forum, le Grenelle de l’Environnement, Nicolas Sarkozy said this:

“From now on, every major public project, every public decision will be judged on its effect on climate, and on its carbon cost. Each public decision will be judged on how it affects bio-diversity. The onus won’t be on ecological decisions to prove their merit, but on non-ecological projects to prove they can’t be done any other way. Non-ecological decisions must be taken as a last resort. It’s a total revolution in the way we govern our country.”

Let’s just hope this is not just fine words and talk.

In other news from the environmental forum Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday issued a ban on the most inefficient light bulbs by 2010 in France.

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Simon Leufstedt is the founder and editor of Green Blog – an environment blog with authors from around the world. He is also the admin of Enviro Space - a place to meet, discuss and interact with other people who share your interests and ideas. Simon has previously studied Global Environmental Justice and is currently busy working with the Swedish TckTckTck organisation and learning everything there is to know about Human Ecology at the Lund University in Sweden.
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  • Far reaching words. I agree and hope policy bears out with that. They pioneered the 35 hour working week as policy, so it's not out of the question that this could happen. Still, it's still a pleasant surprise!
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