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France 2026

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France enters 2027 having cut its territorial emissions to 369 Mt CO₂e in 2024, 32% below 1990, but at a pace the High Council for the Climate judges too slow for the 2030 target of 270 Mt. Its electricity is about 95% low-carbon and the country exported a record volume of power in 2024, yet the same nuclear fleet showed its exposure in 2022, when corrosion repairs and heat-limited cooling cut output to its lowest level since 1988.

調査結果
12
each with its status and source
Sectors with findings
5 of 6
Infrastructure not assessed
Risk objects
4
order carries no rank
出典
40
Evidence close 30 September 2026

01 · Readings

France in six readings.

Six readings that frame the baseline, and the eight questions this edition answers, each with its status and source.

  • 68.6millionpopulation, 1 January 2025 [6]
  • 369Mt CO₂eemissions, 2024 [1]
  • ≈95%low-carbon electricity, 2024 [7]
  • ≈18%of EU agricultural output [23]
  • 9.4t CO₂ecarbon footprint per person, 2023 [3]
  • 17.1millionresidents exposed to river flooding [22]

02 · Sectors

Six sectors, one hexagon.

Water first, then Energy, Infrastructure, Food, Health and Biodiversity. Each count is the findings of this edition in that sector: coverage of the evidence, never a score. Infrastructure is not assessed: the edition holds no Infrastructure finding and its coupling matrix does not assess it.

  1. WAT水1 finding

    ≈58% Share of freshwater consumed by agriculture, recent. 報告値

    Low summer flows shared by irrigation, cooling and drinking water; 17.1 million residents exposed to river flooding.

  2. ENEエネルギー2 findings

    ≈95% Low-carbon share of electricity, 2024. 報告値

    About 95% low-carbon electricity; nuclear output exposed to heat and low flows.

  3. INFインフラnot assessed

    Rail, roads and networks exposed to heat, floods and clay movement.

  4. FOO食料1 finding

    ≈18% Share of EU agricultural output, 2024. 報告値

    The EU’s largest agricultural producer; harvests cut in hot, dry years.

  5. HLT健康1 finding

    3,700+ deaths Heat-attributable deaths, summer, 2024. 報告値

    More than 3,700 heat deaths in summer 2024; older people most exposed.

  6. BIO生物多様性1 finding

    ≈−30% Change in farmland bird populations, 1989–2023. 報告値

    Farmland birds down about 30% since 1989; 林野火災 reaching new regions.

Outside the six sectors: Climate forcing 3, Finance 2, Systemic 1.

03 · Hazard exposure

The hazards this edition reads.

The edition’s own risk objects, in its order, each read across driver, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, cascade and horizon. The hexagon marks the sectors the cascade reaches; the domain beside each is an editorial reading of its hazard words.

  • RSK-FRA-CLI-001

    極端な暑さ

    報告値EQL 4

    要因
    heatwaves above 40 °C; tropical nights
    曝露
    people aged 75 and over; dense cities
    脆弱性
    isolation; housing without cooling
    能力
    heat-health alerts; national 熱波 plan
    カスケード
    CLI → HLT · CLI → ENE cooling demand
    ホライズン
    seasonal

    大気と気象

  • RSK-FRA-WAT-002

    Drought and low river flows

    報告値EQL 4

    要因
    dry winters; hot summers
    曝露
    nuclear cooling, irrigation, drinking water
    脆弱性
    three uses sharing the same low flows
    能力
    water restrictions; Plan Eau [11]
    カスケード
    WAT → ENE, FOO, HLT
    ホライズン
    seasonal · 5 years

    水システム

  • RSK-FRA-FIN-003

    Clay shrink-swell subsidence

    報告値EQL 3

    要因
    repeated droughts drying clay soils
    曝露
    10.4 million detached houses [21]
    脆弱性
    shallow foundations
    能力
    CatNat cover [15]; building standards
    カスケード
    CLI → WAT → FIN → households
    ホライズン
    1–10 years

    水システム

  • RSK-FRA-CLI-004

    River and Mediterranean flash flooding

    報告値EQL 4

    要因
    intense autumn storms; river floods
    曝露
    17.1 million residents [22]
    脆弱性
    building in flood-prone areas
    能力
    flood forecasting; risk-prevention plans
    カスケード
    CLI → INF, HLT, FIN
    ホライズン
    年次

    水システム大気と気象

Scenario · SCN-FRA-HDN-01

Hot, dry summer with low river flows

Under this scenario, results describe a conditional season under stated assumptions. It is not a forecast, and no intervention described here has been carried out.

3 of 12 findings name a hazard in their text. Show them

  1. 1CLI → WATlow rainfall and heat cut river flows
  2. 2WAT → ENEreactors cut output to respect discharge-temperature limits
  3. 3CLI → HLTheat deaths among older people rise
  4. 4WAT → FOOirrigation restrictions and heat cut harvests
  5. 5CLI → BIOwildfires in the south-west and beyond
  6. 6WAT → FINclay subsidence claims rise under CatNat

04 · Couplings

How the sectors carry risk into each other.

The France matrix types the twenty couplings between the five core システム. Strengths are Nexus estimates from the cited evidence and analogue events; they set the starting graph that the Q1 2027 Foundry cut will test.

Coupling matrix, from row to column
起点WATENEFOOHLTBIO
WAT·StrongStrong中程度Strong
ENE中程度·StrongStrong中程度
FOO中程度Weak·StrongStrong
HLTWeakWeak中程度·Weak
BIOStrong中程度Strong中程度·

Water: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Energy: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Food: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Health: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Biodiversity: 4 couplings out, 4 in. Infrastructure is not in the coupling matrix: none of the edition matrices types it, so it carries no value.

Cascade paths, in the edition’s order

  1. CLI → WAT → ENEheat and low flows force nuclear output cuts報告値
  2. CLI → HLTheatwaves raise deaths among older people報告値
  3. CLI → WAT → FINdrought shrinks clay soils, cracks houses and raises CatNat claims報告値
  4. WAT → FOOdrought and irrigation limits cut harvestsInferred
  5. CLI → BIO林野火災 spreads to regions once spared報告値

05 · Findings

Every finding of France.

Search, filter by sector, system or status, and sort. The address bar keeps the view, so a filtered list can be shared. Every row opens the finding at its source.

All 12 findings

Findings of France
ID版Sector or systemステータスStatement
CLI-001フランスCLI Climate forcing 報告値Territorial emissions were 369 Mt CO₂e in 2024, 1.8% below 2023 and 32% below 1990.
CLI-002フランスCLI Climate forcing 報告値Meeting the 2030 target of 270 Mt requires cuts of about 15 Mt a year; the 2024 cut was about 7 Mt.
CLI-003フランスCLI Climate forcing 報告値2022 was the warmest year on record in metropolitan France.
ENE-004フランスENE エネルギー 報告値Nuclear output fell to 279 TWh in 2022, the lowest since 1988, as corrosion repairs and heat-limited cooling coincided.
ENE-005フランスENE エネルギー 報告値Electricity was about 95% low-carbon in 2024; power-sector emissions fell 26% as nuclear and hydro output recovered.
HLT-006フランスHLT 健康 報告値Heat caused more than 3,700 deaths in summer 2024; about three quarters were among people aged 75 and over.
FOO-007フランスFOO 食料 報告値France produces about 18% of the EU’s agricultural output, the largest share of any member state.
WAT-008フランスWAT 水 報告値Agriculture accounts for about 58% of freshwater consumed; the Plan Eau targets a 10% cut in withdrawals by 2030.
FIN-009フランスFIN 金融 報告値About 10.4 million detached houses are exposed to clay shrink-swell subsidence, a leading cost of the CatNat regime.
FIN-010フランスFIN 金融 報告値Natural-event insurance claims reached about €10 billion in 2022, the highest since 1999.
BIO-011フランスBIO 生物多様性 報告値Farmland bird populations have declined by about 30% since 1989.
SYS-012フランスSYS システミック Expert inputThe leading compound pathway for 2027 testing is a hot, dry summer in which low river flows constrain nuclear cooling while heat, drought, 林野火災 and clay subsidence load health, food and insurance.

06 · Editions and calendar

The desks’ editions for France.

The desks’ editions for France
デスク版状況識別子
GCRI Systems EvidenceFrance 2026Drafted, in stewardship reviewNR-COUNTRY-FRA-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
GRF Public DeliberationPublic Deliberation: France 2026準備中
GRA Capital ReadinessCapital Readiness: France 2026準備中
Standards ProgressNo edition in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Academy CapabilityNo edition in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Index MeasurementMeasurement: France 2026準備中

Calendar · 2026 Baseline

  1. 01Call opensset by the editor
  2. 02Contribution closeset by the editor
  3. 03エビデンス締め切り30 September 2026
  4. 04Desk review and releaseset by the editor
  5. 05Collection compilationset by the editor
  6. 06Collection releaseset by the editor
  7. 07訂正after release, as needed

Evidence cut NQ-FRA-2026-Q0-1. Next cycles: Q1 2027, Q2 2027, Q3 2027, Q4 2027; their dates are set by the editor.

07 · Take part

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訂正履歴

Versions and corrections
バージョン日付状況変化通知
NR-COUNTRY-FRA-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0October 2026DRAFTBaseline Edition 2026, inaugural annual edition,なし
Data gaps3What the repository does not hold yet, and the source proposed for each
Data gaps and proposed sources
ギャップShown here asProposed source
Exposure values per hazard (people, assets, hectares)the edition’s own risk objects, without valuesthe Index country profile once the Index releases values, risksindex.com/fra/
The NHS-1 hazard types and their assignment to this edition’s risk objectsan editorial reading of the hazard wordsthe NHS-1 type assignment through the Registry
Infrastructure in the coupling matrixInfrastructure marked not assessedan Infrastructure row and column in the edition matrix at the next cut
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