French MPs on Monday launched a three-week debate of the controversial climate and resilience bill which is aimed at cutting carbon emissions by 40 percent of 1990 levels by 2030, reports RFI.
The draft law contains the work by 150 randomly selected French citizens who made more than 100 proposals to fight global warming.
But critics claim the bill has excluded some of the suggestions.
On Sunday, environmental groups organised demonstrations throughout France to call on MPs to adopt what they say is a robust law to tackle the problems.
“All the scientists and groups say that the bill which the government is proposing is falling short,” said Tom Baquerre, co-president of Combat Monsanto Green Group during a protest in Paris.
"It would not allow us to reach the Paris Agreement goals. We need to put pressure on the lawmakers so they propose amendments which would make that bill more ambitious. It is currently far from being so.”