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How will public finances deal with climate change?
The Auvergne Rhône-Alpes regional chamber of accounts announced during its solemn return this Thursday, in Lyon, a major study launched for the year 2023 to analyze this impact in mountain areas, where snow is becoming a little scarcer. every winter.
The Aurhalpin magistrates will pilot a report to which the Occitanie and Paca regions will contribute, with around thirty stations audited in total, out of the 270 in the country.
The president of the chamber, Bernard Lejeune, will also be going to Grenoble in the coming days to meet climatologists.
They are the ones who will deliver to the magistrates the climate projections on the basis of which they will anchor their analysis.
“With what the scientists give us, we are able to calculate the perspective of the financial situation to estimate what the economic model will be in thirty years”
, explains the magistrate.
No snow, no recipes
The subject is obviously known and studied from a climatic point of view by scientists and economically by tourism players, in particular.
But no investigation has been carried out on the impact for stations, municipalities and other public bodies.
"We only look at the financial impact for local players
,
that's our job
," continues Bernard Lejeune.
Because who says station shutdown, says loss of revenue for mountain communities.
A few decades of anticipation which are ultimately not much on the scale of public policies for which DSPs are often given over long periods.
Paths to clear
The magistrates will therefore draw up an inventory of the activity today and of the economic model sometimes already suffering, while the Christmas period was not good.
And to audit the future risks for this model.
A prospective component is also planned on the avenues to be considered and the solutions to counteract the loss of stations, for example.
“The goal is not to look at whether it is well managed but to make a perspective analysis by saying to oneself: “will the economic and financial model of local authorities and actors hold up over time”
, summarizes Bernard The young.
Burgundy forest, furnace towns and coastlines
With inevitably very different answers from the Pyrenees to the Alps via the Auvergne mid-mountain resorts, also present in the panel.
The altitude and the slope of exposure seem already identified as a strong climatic criterion.
This survey will find its place in an annual public report published in early 2024, at the national level, on this subject of global warming.
With attention to the coastline in certain maritime regions, or on the forests in Burgundy.
A study to which the Aurhalpine chamber will also provide elements.
Just like the one carried out in the Grand Est on heat in cities.
