France: Green Growth and Innovation – Score: +0.5
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In the Deauville Declaration released on 27 May 2011, the G8 acknowledged the importance of green growth and innovation both in the environmental and the economic sense. Furthermore, the G8 stated that it “strongly supports international cooperation on green growth and will intensify [its] efforts to contribute to next steps, notably looking forward to the UN Conference in Rio on sustainable development”. In addition, the G8 also acknowledged the economic role of green growth and stated that it “supports carefully designed labour market measures supportive of the creation of green jobs as well as the greening of traditional jobs”. Because these initiatives to not concretely commit the G8 to any action that promotes international organizations or economic incentives, France receives a score of 0.5.