Stimulus agreement of 216 million euros between the metropolis of Lyon and the State.

A territorial stimulus agreement of 216 million euros for 2021-2022, intended for "

ecological transition, competitiveness and cohesion

", was concluded between the State and the Metropolis of Lyon, said the latter Tuesday.

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As part of the national recovery plan of 100 billion euros, announced last September by the government, this agreement "will

make it possible to co-finance actions and projects ready to start quickly and likely to amplify a dynamic of transformation. structural,

”said the metropolis in a press release.

“

Air pollution regularly threatens the opening of our nurseries and schools;

loss of biodiversity threatens our food security;

energy sieve housing inflates individual and overall energy bills

, ”underlined the environmental president of the Lyon metropolitan area, Bruno Bernard.

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Thus, this envelope of 216 million euros (editor's note: 125 million from the Metropolis, 91 from the State) should benefit the "

energy renovation of colleges and social housing

", the "

development of urban agriculture and short circuits in priority areas of the city (QPV)

”and“

support for decarbonization of industry

”.

The agreement comes after the signing of the State-Region recovery plan on January 16 by President LR d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Laurent Wauquiez and Prime Minister Jean Castex, which provides for 3 billion euros of joint investments in the next two years.

Concerns dispelled

In a letter to the Regional Prefect of January 29, the presidents of the four metropolises in the Region (Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne and Clermont-Ferrand) were concerned that they had not been initially associated with "

the development of this recovery plan

”.

A concern that has since dissipated with the return to the negotiating table of all territorial players, we learned Friday from concordant sources.