The ‘Renaturation of towns and villages’ Green Fund measure
2023
The Fonds d’accélération de la transition écologique dans les territoires, also known as the ‘Green Fund’, was set up in 2023. It helps local authorities to improve their environmental performance, adapt their territory to climate change and enhance their living environment.
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Announced on 27 August 2022 by then Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the Fonds d’accélération de la transition écologique dans les territoires, also known as the Green Fund, was endowed with €2 billion in 2023 to help local authorities and their partners accelerate their ecological transition. Set out in the Finance Act for 2023 and coordinated by the Directorate-General for Planning, Housing and Nature (DGALN), this fund will enable local and regional initiatives to be rolled out, under the responsibility of prefects and decentralised departments. For each of the green fund’s measures, guidance manuals are available to help project leaders get started. The Aides-territoires platform presents, by theme, the financial support available to local authorities and their consortia, and provides access to the digital tool Démarches simplifiées (simplified procedures) for entering applications for support and monitoring the processing of applications. The Green Fund, which has been renewed and topped up to €2.5 billion, is designed to finance projects submitted by local authorities and their public or private partners in three areas: environmental performance, adapting to climate change and improving the quality of life. Support from the Green Fund takes the form of direct subsidies, including for engineering services, to support projects aimed at accelerating the ecological transition of local and regional authorities at all stages of progress (preliminary studies, diagnostics, project management assistance, implementation). Actions eligible under the fund must contribute, as part of an integrated territorial strategy, to :
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the renaturation of urban land and spaces: creation, restoration, ecological management of parks and gardens, greening of public spaces (alignment and greening of the foot of trees), urban agriculture projects favourable to biodiversity, ecological restoration (soil stabilisation and renaturation, etc.) ;
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the presence of water and aquatic environments in the city: restoration of the hydrographic network (reopening or renaturation of watercourses, re-meddling, stabilisation and re-profiling of banks), wetlands, flood expansion zones; creation of ditches and areas for infiltration of rainwater (and desoiling of soils);
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greening public buildings and facilities (green roofs and façades).
To support the efforts of local authorities and their public and private partners, and to help meet the challenges of ecological planning, the government has decided to make the Green Fund permanent from 2024. What’s more, the initial package of measures that make up the Green Fund has been expanded to broaden the scope of the 2024 bids.