France community activism news
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| Location | France, Europe |
| Coordinates | 48° 52' 43.56" N, 2° 19' 20.15" E |
Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across France.
2025
France, Spain among countries to agree to tax premium flyers, private jets, reuters.com (Jun 30, 2025) - In Guadeloupe, ‘Creole gardens’ give climate lessons in a spirit of solidarity, globalvoices.org (Apr 15, 2025)
- French shipping co-op orders pioneering sail-powered boxship, thenews.coop (Apr 11, 2025) — “This citizen-led initiative empowers all stakeholders to take part in building a low-carbon, human- and environment-centred maritime transport system.”
2024
- Paris to showcase what a real bicycle city looks like during Summer Olympics, momentummag.com (Mar 13, 2024)
- Why Europe is dismantling its dams, BBC Future (Mar 05, 2024)
- France halts €100-a-month electric car leasing scheme after huge demand, theguardian.com (Feb 14, 2024)
- Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs, theguardian.com (Feb 04, 2024)
2023
- Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution, theguardian.com (Dec 08, 2023)
- ‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste, theguardian.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- Paris puts people and bicycles at the heart of ambitious new climate plan, momentummag.com (Nov 29, 2023)
- Citizens' Assemblies should lean towards becoming a parallel polis - and much less a democratic figleaf for establishments, Daily Alternative (Oct 14, 2023)
- France used 10% less electricity last winter – three valuable lessons in fighting climate change, theconversation.com (Sep 18, 2023)
- Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’, ground.news (Jul 11, 2023)
- Mon dieu, France invests cool $2 billion to promote cycling, momentummag.com (May 26, 2023)
- From a French citizens' assembly, an eyewitness report on how non-experts are their real strength, The Daily Alternative (Jan 21, 2023)
2022
- Ban on single-use restaurant tableware hailed as fast-food ‘revolution’ in France, The Guardian (Dec 28, 2022)
- France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution, The Conversation (Nov 17, 2022)
- The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance now has 10 core members (Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Portugal, Quebec, Sweden, Wales, and Washington State), two associate members (California and New Zealand), and five "friends of BOGA" (Chile, Fiji, Finland, Italy, and Luxembourg)., beyondoilandgasalliance.org (Nov 16, 2022) — BOGA is an international alliance of governments and stakeholders working together to facilitate the managed phase-out of oil and gas production, led by the governments of Denmark and Costa Rica
- France to require all large car parks to be covered by solar panels, theguardian.com (Nov 09, 2022)
- Climate change and the French: The summer that ended indifference, lemonde.fr (Aug 22, 2022)
- ‘It’s a beautiful thing’: how one Paris district rediscovered conviviality, The Guardian (Jul 14, 2022) — It started with an organised ‘bonjour’. Now the ‘republic of good neighbours’ say they want to reclaim the streets
- Young People in France Ready to Fly Less, Stay Grounded (Feb 16, 2022) — global warming worries young people: 80% of them think that the situation is very worrying or dramatic and that it is urgent to act for the climate. Better still, a large majority (76%) recognizes the need to make significant or radical changes in our lifestyles . Young people are ready to act in all areas of daily life: daily transport (79%), tourism (81%), food (87%), consumption (92%), energy (92% ), recycling (95%).
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| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2020–2025). "France community activism news". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |