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As a French citizen, the outcome of the first round of the French snap elections is a heartbreaker. As a climate campaigner, it is an absolute nightmare. Whatever the final result and the final composition of the Parliament, climate and the environment have been blatantly absent from the campaign. How could it be otherwise when the decision to revoke the current set of MPs was so sudden and with the far right closest to power than at any time since World War II? Yet, climate change didn’t hit pause over the weekend: the parallel pictures of a “brown” far-right wave taking over the French elect…

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