French President Emmanuel Macron has promised a stronger focus on climate and environmental policies if he wins re-election on April 24, as he seeks to gain the support of green voters. “My next prime minister will be directly in charge of ecological planning,” Macron told supporters in the southern city of Marseille during a campaign appearance on Saturday. Calling the climate crisis the “battle of the century,” affecting all areas of life and politics, Macron held out the prospect of France becoming a “great nation of ecology.” Macron also accused his challenger, far-right Marine Le Pen, of …