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The European Commission (EC) has just published a European Wind Power package including a Wind Power Action Plan, which aims at helping the European...

International law firm BCLP has advised a banking pool led by Crédit Agricole du Languedoc on establishing a €38 million Revolving Credit Facility for Elements, a renewable energy producer based in Montpellier. The facility, which can be extended to €50 million, will support the company's ambitious growth plans to reach 1 GW of installed capacity through photovoltaic, hydropower, and wind projects across France and Italy.

France will actually keep importing fuel produced abroad, which represents 99 percent of oil and gas consumption in France.

Such transition was required by the European Commission, which considers feed-in tariffs as State aids and requests a more stringent review of such aids.

On April 5, 2022, the EU Commission proposed two new regulations to restrict the emission and use of highly potent greenhouse gases, which heavily contribute to global warming...

On December 18, 2019, the French Administrative Supreme Court ruled in favor of limiting a hydrocarbon mining permit for climate change reasons.

Latin America has seen an increase in investments within the energy sector specifically in renewable energy, with this increase expected to continue over the next few years.

The European Commission has finalized its simplification package for the EU Deforestation Regulation, introducing significant changes to product coverage and operational procedures. The package includes modifications to the list of regulated products, technical updates to the Information System, and multilingual guidance documentation. These developments represent the Commission's response to feedback from Member States and affected industries seeking more streamlined compliance processes.

Chemical recycling of plastic is at a turning point in Europe, with several large projects poised to start but still facing regulatory and market challenges.

On September 2, 2016, France announced that it would be the first country to issue national "green bonds" starting in 2017.

In what is viewed as a major step toward the country becoming carbon neutral by 2050, the French Parliament has adopted the "Energy-Climate" law, which sets the framework, ambitions, and targets of French climate policy for the next 30 years.

As of January 1, 2022, new French environmental regulations ("RE2020") are coming into force, replacing the former thermic regulations ("RT 2012").

Originally viewed as one of the most promising countries in Europe for shale gas development, France recently affirmed its decision to ban hydraulic fracturing.

In 2009, France committed to an overall objective of 23 percent of renewable electricity production by 2020 in the context of the EU Climate Change Package.

The market of renewable energies has shown fast growth. With global costs driving down due to the increased prevalence of competitive tendering...

The French government announced last week that it will launch in May 2011 a tender for 10 billion Euros of offshore wind farms with a total capacity of 3000 megawatts (MW), stretching along the French coast.

As of January 1, 2022, the first delegated acts adopted to supplement European Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of June 18, 2020 (the "Taxonomy Regulation") became applicable.

A Paris civil court has drawn a clear line on the limits of environmental marketing by large energy companies.

In this episode of French Insider, Reid Whitten, Managing Partner of Sheppard Mullin's London office, joins host Sarah Ben-Moussa to discuss the U.S.-China trade war...