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TV presenter and ecologist Nicolas Hulot has criticised delays in putting environmental promises into law.
TV presenter and ecologist Nicolas Hulot has criticised delays in putting environmental promises into law.
Via his environmental foundation’s website he has published a report into progress following last year’s Grenelle environment summit.
Hulot, who took part in the summit along with other representatives of business and environmental groups, said there had been plenty of time to place the ideas ‘into concrete’.
He said the government had missed an opportunity to take a lead in Europe by delaying the discussion of a new environmental bill until after the summer and the start of the French presidency of the EU.
“This does not give out a strong message of ecological urgency,” he said.
Photo: AFP Francois Guillot