2023-11-22 14:42:26
The speed will be limited to 50 km/h from September 14 on the ring road, announced Wednesday, November 22, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, during the presentation of the city’s fourth climate plan, which also provides for the exit fossil fuels and the renovation of public buildings.
“After the Paris Games, from September 14, 2024, the speed will be limited to 50 km/h on the ring road, compared to 70 today. Less environmental and noise pollution, and more safety for users, all good reasons to slow down! Today, the median speed on the ring road is 50 km/h during the day, 30 to 45 km/h during rush hours and 60 km/h at night.said the municipality in a communiqué published on its site.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, also gave her approval for the postponement until after the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) of the implementation of her limited traffic zone (ZTL) project which plans to prohibit transit traffic. in the center.
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Reduce your carbon footprint by 80% compared to 2004
The emissions trajectory presented by the city aims to reduce its direct greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, and to reduce its carbon footprint (including indirect emissions) by 80%, compared to 2004. taking compensation measures for the remaining 20%. An intermediate level, in 2030, sets the objective of halving direct emissions and 40% of the carbon footprint.
In 2021, the last year available – but still marked by health measures which reduced activity – the city’s carbon footprint was 18.4 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, according to the town hall, down 35% compared to in 2004. Direct emissions were 4.7 Mt, or 36.5% less than in 2004.
Among the measures announced, the exit from fossil fuels, the main culprits of global warming. The City promises to no longer have a single municipal vehicle with a thermal engine by 2030, and to no longer use fossil fuels (particularly gas) to heat municipal equipment by 2040.
The town hall is also committed to having renovated, in 2050, all of its schools and nurseries, in order to reduce their energy consumption and adapt them to scorching temperatures.
Paris, which is preparing to face summers with temperature peaks of 50 degrees, will also put in place a plan “Very hot” for homeless people, based on the plans ” Extreme cold “ Winter ; and “places of refuge” vegetated or underground for the population.
The municipality did not present overall figures for this plan, simply claiming to have invested 10 billion euros since 2014 in the climate transition, and 1.75 billion in 2023.
The climate plan must be definitively adopted by the Paris Council in spring 2024.
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