4. Looking ahead: strengthening headwinds?

While the fight against artificialization now appears to be an absolute priority, both to protect the French facing climatic adversity and agriculture elevated by the State to the rank of "issue of national sovereignty", the government's decision on November 20, 2024 to support a proposal by the Senate to relax the "zero net artificialization" (ZAN) device, one of the major objectives of the 2021 Climate and Resilience Act, is not without its questions . To mark the occasion,...