France's research minister said nuclear can help fight climate change, but the country's Green party (Les Verts) disagreed vociferously. In an address to a conference on climate change at the French Senate yesterday, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg listed nuclear fission alongside hydrogen applications and magnetic confinement fusion as promising technologies that don't emit greenhouse gases. Les Verts protested in a statement that "nuclear is not the solution to the greenhouse effect" because it is "totally unadapted" to the needs and resources of developing countries.