Lors de la présentation de la coopérative, ce mercredi 5 février, au Mibi (Montpellier International Business Incubator).. Midi Libre – GIACOMO ITALIANO
"Co. Op. Carbone" va permettre à des collectivités et des entreprises de bénéficier d’un appui financier et technique pour monter des projets autour de la décarbonation.
As a result of human activity and energy combustion, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have increased sharply in recent decades. Faced with climate change that is already affecting the Mediterranean basin, one solution is to decarbonize, i.e. reduce the production of emissions, which involves reducing energy consumption in particular.
In November 2023, eight inter-municipal authorities – representing 200 municipalities in Hérault – and the Occitanie Region joined forces to create a Development and Transitions Agency (ADT).
This Wednesday, February 5, the ADT launched Co. Op. Carbone, a transition mechanism for the decarbonization of territories. This project is all the more innovative since “only La Rochelle and Paris have set up comparable cooperatives”, even if they differ on the objectives, recalled Alex Larue, president of the ADT. The stakes are high. “Being at the forefront of the transition is an environmental asset but also an economic asset”.
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“The engineering developed by the ADT will allow us to take action on specific issues”, emphasizes Jean-Luc Requi, president of the CC Lodévois and Larzac.
“All stakeholders in the region must be stakeholders, specifies Michaël Delafosse, president of Montpellier Metropolis. In the Cambacérès district, businesses are heated by the largest geothermal power plant on the water table in France.”
President of the Agglo du Pays de l’Or, Stéphan Rossignol cited examples where“decarbonization will take on its full meaning: carpooling, cycle paths, Piom (Parc Industries Or Méditerranée), the Fréjorgues Est and Ouest activity zones, the airport…”
“Divide our energy consumption by half”
“We must all aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, recalled Isabelle Touzard, Vice-President of the Métropole à the ecological and energy transition. In our territory, this means that we will have to halve our energy consumption. We are on schedule. In the Metropolis, we emit 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, and we will have to go down to 240,000. For this long-term work, we need financial support to meet the concerns of businesses and project leaders."
With the technical expertise of EDF
Marie-Thérèse Mercier, regional councillor of the Region, recalled the wish expressed by President Carole Delga seven years ago: “to be the first positive energy region in Europe”.
“We want to carry out three actions simultaneously in our territory: raise awareness about energy sobriety, decarbonise, and sequester the carbon (i.e. storing it outside the atmosphere), continued Sylvain Vidal, director of regional action EDF Occitanie. We will bring our technical and local expertise to these projects”.
Among those that have started, we can mention tree planting, restoration of marine environments, bio-sourced constructions… A list that should grow in the future.
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