French far-right's new environment policy: No international agreements, more nuclear power.

The National Front's environmental movement will campaign for nuclear power and against emissions caps.

Marine Le Pen's National Front has launched the "New Ecology" movement. The French nationalist party's take on environmental activism will include opposing international climate negotiations and promoting nuclear energy. While ecologists the world over support a coordinated, international approach to climate and environmental issues, the NF prefers a national model.

The ("New Ecology&quot movement sees itself as an alternative to Europe Ecology - the Greens (EELV), which the NF secretary general denounced as "the party that has done the most harm to environmentalism." The Socialist party condemned the hypocrisy of the new movement on Twitter, criticising their appropriation of the environmental movement for their electoral purposes.

The National Secretary of the EELV (the Green Party) for France, Emmanuelle Cosse, faced the President of the National Front in a televised debate on BFMTV on 7 December, where Marine Le Pen accused her of "promoting a profoundly anti-ecological model through the European Union and the absence of borders," and advanced her ideas for a nationally-focused energy transition.

The National Front has also opposed working on a global solution to global warming in the European Parliament, voting against a resolution that called upon the EU's member states to play a constructive role in the Lima climate negotiations. ... The justification given ... was the failure of the Lima conference. Goddyn stated that "the Lima conference was bound to be a failure because ecological policies, however binding they may be, are cancelled out by policies of free trade".

http://www.euractiv.com/sections/sustainable-dev/french-national-front-launches-patriotic-environmental-movement-310874

The far-right's suspicion of international negotiations and cooperation, indeed of the need for multilateral organizations at all, proceeds in the direction of hyper-nationalism.

You know the far-right is out of environmental ideas when the National Front's president, Marine Le Pen, accuses the leader of the Green Party of "promoting a profoundly anti-ecological model through the European Union and the absence of borders" despite the EU's reputation for being just about the most environmentally progressive ruling body in the world.

Instead of a "coordinated, international approach" the National Front proposes merely unilateral national action - or more properly "inaction" since they resist limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Staying true to their nationalistic and anti-EU foundation leaves the NF unable to formulate a viable plan for dealing with global climate change which requires cooperation between countries.