France's environmental report - 2023 edition, March 2024

Spending on environmental protection in the face of environmental degradation: Human and economic activities exert multiple pressures on the various components of the environment, leading to significant degradation of natural ecosystems (loss of biodiversity, air and water pollution, etc.). Faced with these environmental challenges, measures and actions are put in place to prevent, reduce or compensate for the damage caused. This involves substantial financial resources dedicated to environmental protection. In 2021, this expenditure amounted to 60 billion euros, underlining the efforts being made to mitigate the harmful impacts of our activities on the planet. Thematic fact sheets: 22 thematic fact sheets address, through a few key indicators, the major issues and the state of knowledge in various environmental fields: natural environments, exposure to risks, green economy, material consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energies, environmental concerns and practices, etc. This overview, based on the latest data, puts recent developments in these fields into perspective. The fact sheets are organized around three themes: status and pressures on natural environments, responses from economic players, and ecological and energy transitions