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Lille Metropole voted its PCAET on 13 December 2019 by adopting a bold strategy based on three major pillars in terms of climate-air-energy policy:

-Energy transition should lead the region to be carbon neutral by 2050;

-A balanced and supportive transition of the region, based on stakeholders’ mobilisation and participation and paying attention to reducing social   inequalities;

-A transition resulting in a more resilient region faced with the various impacts of climate change, enabling inhabitants’ quality of life to be   preserved and improved. Specific attention is given to environmental health determining factors in particular.

This ambition is based on a unique and original approach in France and gives Lille Metropole a climate budget. The aim of this climate budget is to enrich the financial elements relating to public policies and projects presented in the budget by a section allowing their climate impacts to be understood.

The City of Lille, led by mayor Martine Aubry, presented its citizens with the opportunity of giving them voice on various urban projects with the ultimate goal of gaining a major landscape metamorphosis.  The idea for Rue du Molinel street is to reduce number of parking lots which occupy around 60% of the whole street …