Public policies and urban development path issues

The quality of the message conveyed by public policies and the urban development path issues include:

• Measuring "sustainable development" performance in cities and in delegated urban services management companies (Integrated Territorial Economic Approach for the Climate: The economics of local climate action plans).
• The desirable and possible paths for achieving urban sustainability targets. Indeed, the urban fabric is characterised by the cumulative effect of public and private decisions on a territory, determining the possible development paths, but also the irreversibility. These questions are analysed particularly through: 
  • the functioning of real estate markets in the current context of deregulation,
  • “factor 4” scenarios for heating and DHW in the housing sector in France,
  • the transition to low-carbon buildings in Chinese cities.
• The instruments, and therefore the quality of the signal given by public policies, enabling developments in the urban fabric with a view to placing cities on sustainable paths. These questions will be approached particularly through:
  • analysis of the urban section of climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges and initiatives in California (laws AB32 et SB375),
  • the study of Territorial Climate Plans in France and elsewhere in the world,
  • the Task Force "Energy Efficiency and Urban Development".