Agence France-Presse: France’s carbon emissions fell by 0.6 percent in 2008 over 2007, placing it on track for meeting its pledges under the UN’s Kyoto Protocol and for deeper cuts by 2020, the ecology ministry said Tuesday. Emissions of greenhouse gases were 527 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, a measure by which heat-trapping gases are standardised in terms of carbon dioxide. The fall in 2008 “occurred despite tougher climate conditions” and came on the heels of a two-percent decline in 2007 over …