France To 'Ban All Petrol And Diesel Vehicles By 2040'

France To 'Ban All Petrol And Diesel Vehicles By 2040'

France plans to outlaw all petrol and diesel
vehicles by 2040, its new environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced.

It will also ban any "new project to use petrol,
gas or coal", as well as shale oil, by 2040.

The radical measure were unveiled at a press
conference this morning as part of French
president Emmanuel Macron's plans to make
France a carbon neutral country by 2050 and
"make the planet great again".

Mr Hulot, a former star wildlife TV presenter,
announced "the end of the sale of petrol or
vehicles between now and 2040."

The French will in the meantime be offered
financial incentives to scrap their polluting
vehicles for clean alternatives, he said.

Concretely, "the government will offer each
French person a bonus to replace their diesel
car dating before 1997 or petrol from before
2001 by a new or second-hand vehicle," he said.

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