Announcing his departure live on the radio this morning (28 August), Hulot said the French government was taking "mini steps" in tackling climate change, defending biodiversity and addressing environmental threats, .
President Macron had declared to "make this planet great again" and made manifesto promises to invest €15 billion in environmental measures, to double French wind and solar PV capacity and to renovate half of the country’s energy-inefficient buildings by 2022.
But Hulot told French radio Macron's actions were inadequate. The minister said: "I don’t want to create the illusion that we’re facing up to it. I can’t lie to myself any more."
Hulot announced his departure after the government vowed to relax hunting laws — a measure aimed at winning support in rural areas, but seen as a betrayal by environmentalists.
He had apparently not informed the government, prompting Benjamin Griveaux, secretary of state to the prime minister, to tell : "I think the most basic courtesy would have been to warn the president of the republic and the prime minister."
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