Bourg-en-Bresse, Lyon and Besançon issued a decree of the same type this week. The capital highlights “the consequences of global warming in Paris and the imperative need to reduce energy consumption”.
Le Monde with AFP
Climatized Parisian stores will have to close their front door from Monday, under penalty of fine, in order to reduce energy consumption, according to a decree taken, Friday July 22, by the town hall of the capital.
This decree, which provides for a contravention of 2 class, in a maximum amount of 150 euros, for commercial or service establishments that will leave their door open when air conditioning – or heating In winter – is in operation. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, underlines that “this measure had been proposed by the Citizen Convention for the Climate and could have been put in place much earlier by a decree of the Government”.
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Reduce energy consumption
The decree highlights as motivation “the consequences of global warming in Paris and the imperative need to reduce, in the current period, energy consumption”.
“It has been found that many businesses in Paris constantly maintained their open entrance door”, notes the city of Paris in its decree, which does not concern “restaurants or drinking flows with a terrace regularly authorized exterior “.
Paris is not the first city to want to force air -conditioned shops to close their doors. On July 15, the socialist town hall of Bourg-en-Bresse had issued a Arrested of the same type, presented as a first in France.
The mayor Europe Ecologie-les Verts de Lyon, Grégory Doucet, imitated it Wednesday by signing a Arrested prohibiting air-conditioned businesses from leaving their door open permanently, followed by Besançon Two days later.