Zero net artificialization: the government faces two opposing bills

An ambitious goal, complex implementation, and now a battle for position in Parliament... This spring, Matignon will have to decide between several texts to facilitate or, on the contrary, postpone the implementation of "zero net artificialization" (ZAN). This measure of the 2021 Climate and Resilience Act provides for neutrality of artificialization in France by 2050.

On Wednesday, May 21, deputies from several groups (Together for the Republic [EPR]; Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories [LIOT]; Horizons; MoDem; Socialist Party; ecologists) presented a bill (PPL) "to achieve the land transition."

The neutrality planned for 2050 "is neither symbolic nor theoretical ," declared Sandrine Le Feur, the president (Renaissance, EPR) of the Sustainable Development and Regional Planning Committee of the National Assembly, but an "indispensable response to the climate emergency, the collapse of biodiversity, the loss of our agricultural land and the silent but continuous degradation of the ecological quality of our soils."

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