France to Transform Champs-éLysées Avenue Ahead of 2024 Olympics

The announcement has been confirmed by the French capital’s officials while they stressed that they plan to transform the avenue by planting trees and increasing pedestrian areas, AtoZSerwisPlus.com reports.

“We need to re-enchant the capital’s most famous avenue, which has lost a lot of its splendour in the past 30 years,” the mayor of the capital’s 8th district, Jeanne d’Hauteserre, pointed out in this regard.

The plan consists of making the city greener and squeezing cars out of Paris, according to authorities in France.

At the same time, socialist Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has stressed that “It’s a reduction of the space for cars, to be clear because that’s how we need to envision the city of the future.”

According to a report published by France 24, at the bottom of the two-kilometre -(1.2 mile) long avenue next to the Place de la Concorde, the “Re-enchant the Champs-Elysees” scheme will ramp the gardens.

“We will create a hectare and a half of green spaces and plant over a hundred trees,” Emmanuel Gregoire, Deputy Mayor, pointed out in this regard.

Previously, it was reported that France’s capital would spend a total of 26 million ahead of the  Olympics on the plan that is set to begin its implementation within weeks.

Besides, Gregoire said that terraces near the top of the avenue would be revoked by the designer Ramy Fischler, who will strive in order to “preserve the identity and personality” of the zone.

Recently, the French Parliament approved a new law which obliges all new commercial buildings to partially have their roofs covered with plants. In addition, the new requirements will affect all new buildings in commercial areas. At first, the proposal of French environmental activists said that roofs should be completely covered by greenery.

France is among the world’s leading countries in promoting sustainability. Last year,  it was ranked in the fourth position in the Global Sustainability Index. At the same time, in 2019, it was ranked as the top country for its sustainability efforts by the Economist’s Sustainable Tourism Index, which takes into account many factors, including how countries preserve cultural, social and environmental capital.

Based on the recent data provided by Statista, a total of 40 per cent of French consumers refuse to purchase a product which is not considered sustainable enough.