France, July 4 -- France's top climate advisory body has called for renewed urgency in tackling climate change, warning that recent setbacks and a slowdown in decarbonisation efforts risk undermining the country's environmental goals.

France is falling behind on its climate promises as extreme weather claims lives, hits food supply chains and strains public budgets, the country's top climate advisory council warned on Thursday.

In its annual report, the High Council for the Climate (HCC) painted a bleak picture of France's fight to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Political instability and stop-start funding are holding back the changes needed to adapt to a fast-warming world, it said.

France's climate plan has "stalled" this year, the HC...