{"id":129005,"date":"2017-09-06T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=129005"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:40:52","slug":"france-to-ban-oil-and-gas-production-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/france-to-ban-oil-and-gas-production-by-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"France to ban oil and gas production by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s government is unveiling a law to ban all production and exploration of oil and natural gas by 2040 on its mainland and overseas territories. <\/p>\n<p>The bill is to be formally presented in a Cabinet meeting later Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Current drilling permits will not be renewed, according to the draft bill obtained by The Associated Press. <\/p>\n<p>The government claims such a ban is a world first. The move is largely symbolic, however, as France&#8217;s oil and gas production represents just 1 percent of national consumption the rest is imported. <\/p>\n<p>The ban is part of a larger plan to wean the country&#8217;s economy from fossil fuels, to encourage clean energy and fulfill France&#8217;s commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement to curb global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s government is unveiling a law to ban all production and exploration of oil and natural gas by 2040 on its mainland and overseas territories. The bill is to be formally presented in a Cabinet meeting later Wednesday. Current drilling permits will not be renewed, according to the draft bill obtained by The Associated Press. The government claims such a ban is a world first. The move is largely symbolic, however, as France&#8217;s oil and gas production represents just 1 percent of national consumption the rest is imported. The ban is part of a larger plan to wean the country&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}