Romain Vaillant appointed Vice-President of Toulouse Métropole in charge of the climate plan
The 12th vice-president of Toulouse Métropole has just changed delegation. Romain Vaillant was until now in charge of decentralized cooperation. This competence has been entrusted to Jean-Claude Dardelet and Nicole Miquel-Belaud. the Mayor of Villeneuve-Tolosane is now in charge of the PCAET (Plan Climat-Air-Énergie Territorial). He obtained this new delegation at the last city council meeting on Thursday, October 14, 2021. “It is with great pleasure that I was awarded by Jean-Luc Moudenc, the president of Toulouse Métropole, the variation of the Climate Plan Air Énergie Territoriale in the 37 municipalities of the Toulouse metropolis “, he indicates.
The final version of Territorial Climate-Air-Energy Plan was adopted in 2019. This project makes it possible in particular to protect the implementation of the energy transition on the territory of the agglomeration. “Today, most of the municipalities of Toulouse Métropole act individually in terms of preserving the environment, without necessarily harmonizing with the PCAETs or sharing good municipal practices. This delegation is aimed at precisely that. “, explains the group Solidarity, Ecological and Democratic Metropolis (MSED) in a press release.
“Create the necessary emulation between the municipalities”
For the MSED, the Territorial Climate-Air-Energy Plan “appears to be essential”. “50 to 70% of solutions to climate change are intended to be implemented at the scale of cities according to experts from the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”, underlines the Métropole Solidaire group. , Ecological and Democratic. The objectives of the PCAET are also ambitious. This territorial project effectively provides 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and 20% of energy consumption by 2030.
Toulouse Métropole also has doubled local renewable energies. Romain Vaillant assures us: “Alongside François Chollet, vice-president for Ecology and Energy Transition, I will make sure to create the necessary emulation between the municipalities so that this ambitious plan is pursued by all the municipalities in order to that, together, the metropolis achieves its objectives in the face of the environmental and climatic issues that we hear “. In 2015, 2,700,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent were emitted in the Toulouse metropolitan area. Transport and displacement 57% of emissions and residential and tertiary 31%.