The seeds for greening the City of Light were planted in 2007 when Le Plan Climat de Paris was adopted. The French capital has been actively reducing its carbon footprint ever since to be as sustainable a city as possible.
As mayor of the city that gave its name to the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, Anne Hidalgo has pledged that the French capital will be carbon neutral by 2050. Featured in magazine in 2020 as one of the world's 100 most influential people, mayor Hidalgo has been described by A1 Gore as “the kind of leader
