France to shut down all coal-fired power plants by 2023

Chartlotte England reporting
 in the Independent about
 France's plants to shut down
 its coal-fired power plants.

France will shut down all its coal-fired power plants by 2023, president Francois Hollande has announced.

Speaking at an annual UN climate change conference on Wednesday, Mr Hollande vowed to beat by two years the UK's commitment to stop using the fossil fuel to generate power by 2025.

Mr Hollande, a keynote speaker at the event in Marrakech, Morocco, also praised his US counterpart Barack Obama for his work on climate change, and then appeared to snub president-elect Donald Trump.

Read Charlotte England’s story in the Independent - “France to shut down all coal-fired power plants by 2023.”