France's Minister for the Ecological Transition has tried to resign after lawmakers approved a bill allowing bee-harming pesticides to come back into use.
"Contrary to the commitments that had been made to me, the government prevented any debate on the removal of this measure," Monique Barbut said in a statement posted on LinkedIn.
She said that the reversal was "one environmental setback too many" however President Macron did not accept her resignation, and "assured her of his support," her office told news agency AFP.
Barbut - also former executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification - will stay due to the "urgency to address the consequences of climate change," her team added.
What are the two pesticides that led Monique Barbut to try and resign and how dangerous are they?
