Global warming: a new challenge for Paris

With other European countries, France has pledged to reduce its emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs). To fulfil its commitment, the government issued in 2004 a "climate", which is part of a territorial logic.

The various plans climate territorial contain 4 main approaches to GHG reduction:

-- For the built heritage and transport
-- For the production and distribution of energy
-- By incentive of the socio-economic
-- By raising awareness of the people

The example Paris: Paris, the construction sector is particularly pollutant. Greenhouse gas emissions come primarily from the energy used for space heating and hot water, but they are also due to the use of large quantities of air conditioners and office.

To counter these unintended effects, the city of Paris has released a dossier containing recommendations environmental data to every applicant for authorization to town and advising on the correct equipment in the field heat, geothermal energy, renewable energy, the insulation…

Paris is characterized by a strong economy and commercial craft. The plan calls for a climate energy efficiency in the production, the development of sustainable tourism in the territory, public incentive mechanisms, and so on. In addition, the city placed on the transport own, it wants to educate the public so that they make responsible purchases (eg packaging) and advise the proper management of waste. It wants to place its actions in a European framework, or even global.

The intentions of the city of Paris are very positive and desirable. But lacking some obligations to businesses and consumers, which would be much more effective than filing a case. While many applicants for permission to urbanism have understood the need for an environmental approach, for example by installing solar panels on the roofs of houses (which often has a financial advantage and considerable energy). But both the interests of short-term financial prevail above all. And why Paris has not joined the "Memorandum of Understanding" (favoring buses hydrogen) together with the cities of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, London, the Canadian province of British Columbia and Hamburg (see the article " Hydrogen Bus). How it is that in the majority of homes in Paris it is impossible to properly sort their waste plastic, paper, glass…? So many questions remain unanswered, in which the implementation of the plan at the moment seems to make little convincing answers.