“CAN Collectibles”: France
19 May 2012
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Bonus Double Saturday Edition!
| National term of endearment/greeting: | Garçon! (only for use in oldstyle cafés, in Paris, by innocent foreigners) |
| Annual wine consumption: | 54 litres/person/year (decreasing due to Frech winery climate change impacts) |
| Annual cheese consumption: | 24 kgs/person/year (increasing to make up for decreased wine drinking) |
| Best things about France: | The wine and the cheese (see above). Beaches in Brittany up north now that one can enjoy warm and sunny summers there (see: global warming). |
| Worst things about France: | Dangerous addiction to nuclear energy. Unemployment due to lack of green jobs (see: dangerous addiction to nuclear energy). |
| Things you didn't know: | Frog legs taste just like chicken. |
| Existing unconditional pledge on the table: | The EU's 20% below 1990 levels by 2020. |
| Existing conditional pledge (upper end): | The EU's 30% below 1990 levels by 2020. |
| Next step to increase ambition by COP18: | This year: a KP QELRO consistent with cuts of at least 30% below 1990 levels by 2020. And a commitment to work in the ADP process to raise ambition to 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. |
| Rationale: | The EU, including France, is close to reaching its 2020 target, a mere 8 years, too early. Moving to an interim 30% target this year would be honest, boost our economy, provide jobs and reduce health budgets. What else can a new President want? |