DECRYPTION – The system aimed at achieving “zero net artificialization” in 2050 could be relaxed by a bill which has just been tabled. Prime Minister Michel Barnier also wants a rearrangement of the text.
This is the nightmare of elected officials which the senators intend to put an end to. In a proposed law, which does not call into question the zero concreting of soils in France set by law by 2050, Guislain Cambier and Jean-Baptiste Blanc want to eliminate the intermediate step which is planned: reducing by half the land artificialization.
For this first objective, the countdown has already started three years ago. From 2021 to 2031, local elected officials must only consume 50% of natural land of what they had used ten years earlier. With this text which could be debated next January in the Senate, the two parliamentarians deal a major blow to the climate and resilience law of August 22, 2021, at the origin of this two-stage system and whose objectives are ringing today today as imperatives.
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