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00:00If it comes to power, the left alliance, the New Popular Front, plans to pass an energy and climate
00:05law within the first 100 days. Its goal, for the country to be carbon neutral by 2050.
00:12The New Popular Front also plans a moratorium on controversial megabasins and a commitment
00:17to preserving biodiversity, with a ban on some pesticides and weed killers such as glyphosate.
00:24On the other side, the far-right National Rally Party has not mentioned biodiversity protection,
00:30instead the party, which has been known to mock environmental regulations,
00:34opposes what it calls punitive policies. It plans to roll back the ban of the sale of gasoline and
00:40diesel-powered cars by 2035, halt the development of wind power and end support for some new solar
00:47farm projects. Then in the centre, there's the current government. Under the Ensemble banner,
00:53it is planning a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2027.
00:59But the ecological transition has been a challenge for Prime Minister Gabriel Atal,
01:03who earlier in the year folded on a number of environmental measures to appease protesting
01:08farmers. And then there's the question of nuclear power, on which the left-wing alliance is divided.
01:15President Emmanuel Macron is for, having promised to open eight new reactors.
01:20And the National Rally is on board too. It would support the construction of 20 reactors by 2045.