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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.

조사 결과
12
each with its status and source
Sectors with findings
5 of 6
Infrastructure not assessed
Risk objects
4
order carries no rank
출처
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. WAT물1 finding

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

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

  2. ENE에너지2 findings

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

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

  3. INF인프라not assessed

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

  4. FOO식량1 finding

    ≈18% Share of EU agricultural output, 2024. 보고값

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

  5. HLT보건1 finding

    3,700+ deaths Heat-attributable deaths, summer, 2024. 보고값

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

  6. BIO생물다양성1 finding

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

    Farmland birds down about 30% since 1989; 산불 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

    극한 고온

    보고값EQL 4

    동인
    heatwaves above 40 °C; tropical nights
    노출
    people aged 75 and over; dense cities
    취약성
    isolation; housing without cooling
    역량
    heat-health alerts; national 폭염 plan
    캐스케이드
    CLI → HLT · CLI → ENE cooling demand
    예측 시계
    seasonal

    대기와 날씨

  • RSK-FRA-WAT-002

    Drought and low river flows

    보고값EQL 4

    동인
    dry winters; hot summers
    노출
    nuclear cooling, irrigation, drinking water
    취약성
    three uses sharing the same low flows
    역량
    water restrictions; Plan Eau [11]
    캐스케이드
    WAT → ENE, FOO, HLT
    예측 시계
    seasonal · 5 years

    물 시스템

  • RSK-FRA-FIN-003

    Clay shrink-swell subsidence

    보고값EQL 3

    동인
    repeated droughts drying clay soils
    노출
    10.4 million detached houses [21]
    취약성
    shallow foundations
    역량
    CatNat cover [15]; building standards
    캐스케이드
    CLI → WAT → FIN → households
    예측 시계
    1–10 years

    물 시스템

  • RSK-FRA-CLI-004

    River and Mediterranean flash flooding

    보고값EQL 4

    동인
    intense autumn storms; river floods
    노출
    17.1 million residents [22]
    취약성
    building in flood-prone areas
    역량
    flood forecasting; risk-prevention plans
    캐스케이드
    CLI → INF, HLT, FIN
    예측 시계
    연간

    물 시스템대기와 날씨

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 시스템. 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
출발WATENEFOOHLTBIO
WAT·StrongStrong중간 규모 손실Strong
ENE중간 규모 손실·StrongStrong중간 규모 손실
FOO중간 규모 손실Weak·StrongStrong
HLTWeakWeak중간 규모 손실·Weak
BIOStrong중간 규모 손실Strong중간 규모 손실·

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 cuts보고값
  2. CLI → HLTheatwaves raise deaths among older people보고값
  3. CLI → WAT → FINdrought shrinks clay soils, cracks houses and raises CatNat claims보고값
  4. WAT → FOOdrought and irrigation limits cut harvestsInferred
  5. CLI → BIO산불 spreads to regions once spared보고값

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
ID판Sector or system상태Statement
CLI-001프랑스CLI Climate forcing 보고값Territorial emissions were 369 Mt CO₂e in 2024, 1.8% below 2023 and 32% below 1990.
CLI-002프랑스CLI Climate forcing 보고값Meeting the 2030 target of 270 Mt requires cuts of about 15 Mt a year; the 2024 cut was about 7 Mt.
CLI-003프랑스CLI Climate forcing 보고값2022 was the warmest year on record in metropolitan France.
ENE-004프랑스ENE 에너지 보고값Nuclear output fell to 279 TWh in 2022, the lowest since 1988, as corrosion repairs and heat-limited cooling coincided.
ENE-005프랑스ENE 에너지 보고값Electricity was about 95% low-carbon in 2024; power-sector emissions fell 26% as nuclear and hydro output recovered.
HLT-006프랑스HLT 보건 보고값Heat caused more than 3,700 deaths in summer 2024; about three quarters were among people aged 75 and over.
FOO-007프랑스FOO 식량 보고값France produces about 18% of the EU’s agricultural output, the largest share of any member state.
WAT-008프랑스WAT 물 보고값Agriculture accounts for about 58% of freshwater consumed; the Plan Eau targets a 10% cut in withdrawals by 2030.
FIN-009프랑스FIN 금융 보고값About 10.4 million detached houses are exposed to clay shrink-swell subsidence, a leading cost of the CatNat regime.
FIN-010프랑스FIN 금융 보고값Natural-event insurance claims reached about €10 billion in 2022, the highest since 1999.
BIO-011프랑스BIO 생물다양성 보고값Farmland bird populations have declined by about 30% since 1989.
SYS-012프랑스SYS 시스템 Expert inputThe leading compound pathway for 2027 testing is a hot, dry summer in which low river flows constrain nuclear cooling while heat, drought, 산불 and clay subsidence load health, food and insurance.

06 · Editions and calendar

The desks’ editions for France.

The desks’ editions for France
데스크판상태식별자
GCRI Systems EvidenceFrance 2026Drafted, in stewardship reviewNR-COUNTRY-FRA-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
GRF Public DeliberationPublic Deliberation: France 2026준비 중
GRA Capital ReadinessCapital Readiness: France 2026준비 중
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 2026준비 중

Calendar · 2026 Baseline

  1. 01Call opensset by the editor
  2. 02Contribution closeset by the editor
  3. 03근거 마감30 September 2026
  4. 04Desk review and releaseset by the editor
  5. 05Collection compilationset by the editor
  6. 06Collection releaseset by the editor
  7. 07정정after 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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정정 기록

Versions and corrections
버전날짜상태변화공지
NR-COUNTRY-FRA-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0October 2026DRAFTBaseline Edition 2026, inaugural annual edition,없음
Data gaps3What the repository does not hold yet, and the source proposed for each
Data gaps and proposed sources
격차Shown 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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