Macron meets Schwarzenegger and vows to stop oil and gas licences

In a dig at Trump's climate change inaction, French president welcomes the green campaigner and says there will be 'no new exploration licences'

The new French government has sought to further burnish its green credentials with the announcement it is to stop granting licences for new oil and gas exploration.

In his first major intervention since Emmanuel Macron's election victory, the ecological transition minister, Nicolas Hulot, told the broadcaster BFMTV there would be "no new exploration licences for hydrocarbons".