The government launches a new national plan for adapting to climate change
March 2025
To prepare France for a temperature increase of +4°C by 2100, the government launched the third national plan for adapting to climate change (PNACC) on Monday 10 March 2025. It provides for a set of concrete actions to adapt our territory to the visible and expected impacts of climate change. The focus is on the territorial dimension and on the financing of the measures.
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52 measures
In the face of the climate emergency, France wants to change scale and adopt a genuine systemic adaptation strategy. To achieve this, the new PNACC includes 52 measures to address all the impacts of climate change. This involves progressive planning with more than 200 concrete actions in the short, medium and long term. They concern all territories, in particular those with specific issues (coasts, mountains, forests, agriculture), and all sectors of activity.
Territorial anchoring
The regionalisation of this new plan is a priority, with, in particular, the integration of an adaptation component for the 2nd edition of the regional COPs (conferences of the parties) and increased support for local actors for effective and concerted adaptation. It should also be noted that the adaptation mission (unified state engineering offer for adaptation aimed at local authorities) will be made permanent, with the appointment of an adaptation referent in each prefecture.
Funding
In order to support the implementation of the adaptation plan, several additional sources of funding have been announced:
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Barnier Fund: 300 million euros in 2025 (i.e. +75 million compared to 2024);
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Green Fund: 260 million euros of credits dedicated to adaptation;
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Water agencies: 1 billion euros of credits directed towards adaptation, 40% of which will be directed towards nature-based solutions;
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30 million euros dedicated to the prevention of shrink-swell in clayey soils.
Taking into account the results of the public consultation organised at the end of 2024, several measures have evolved in the final version of the PNACC. They relate in particular to the summer renovation of housing, the mobilisation of the banking sector, the citizen reserve, etc. According to procedures that remain to be defined, the government, in conjunction with local authorities, should give legal status to the reference warming trajectory for adaptation to climate change (TRACC) by making it enforceable.