As an air of appreciation of the mandate. The Paris Council, which begins on Tuesday, November 19, promises to be the last major political moment of Anne Hidalgo’s second – and possibly last – term. A little less than a year and a half before the municipal elections in which the socialist deputy of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire, former first deputy of Anne Hidalgo, has just declared himself a candidate, it is an opportunity for the Parisian executive to mark the main axes of its followed policy for ten years, giving them global coherence orchestrated around four strategic plans. Synthesize the general political narrative before the electoral race for 2026 begins, in the face of an opposition ready at the starting line, determined not to make concessions.
The color given by the majority to the projects put to a vote this week has never been so green. The climate plan, the local bioclimatic urban plan, the environmental health plan and the resilience plan are interconnected and focused on the same objective: making Paris a city that remains habitable in a climate crisis that has already begun.
In the climate plan, planned for the period 2024-2030, this translates into a set of five hundred medium and long-term measures, which outline the capital’s fight against climate change. Reduction of the carbon footprint and energy consumption, development of renewable energies, revegetation, renovation of public spaces, thermal renovation of buildings, priority of the bicycle over the car, preservation and valorization of water resources… Themes are as diverse as they are numerous, too many. , even for the group Les Républicains, which sees it as a “Preview inventory” AND “Many empty promises”, to Change Paris (the group of Rachida Dati, mayor of 7my district) denounces a “General document that aligns promises without guarantees of compliance”.
“Direct vision”
Create 300 hectares of green spaces? Impossible, believes the vice president of the Changer Paris group, David Alphand, who calculates that this would be equivalent to “420 football fields” and he doesn’t see how to achieve this unless he includes the Parisian cemeteries. In this plan we also find the establishment of the limited traffic zone in the center of Paris, the reduction of speed on the ring road to 50 km/h or the increase in parking rates for heavy vehicles, all of them measures. strongly denounced by the opposition.
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