Greening the city has become a key argument for many municipal candidates. To each his method and his communication, which most often involves an escalation on the number of trees to plant. Some elected officials, such as the ecological mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, do not hesitate to mock this "shallot race of political ecology" . "This campaign is atypical everywhere in France because in each city, it is a kind of primary ecology" , recently estimated the elected EELV.
Paris is among the worst students: the capital is flatly absent from the Top 10 of the 2020 list of the most planted municipalities in France produced by the Observatory of Green Cities. Against its foreign counterparts, the City of Lights also has a very poor record here: while the WHO recommends that each inhabitant should benefit on average from 10 m² of green space within 500 meters of housing, Paris only displays '' an average of 5.8 m² intramural.
This article is for subscribers only. You still have 94% to discover.
Subscribe: € 1 for 2 months
cancellable at any time
Enter your emailAlready subscribed? Login
