This Plan has the objectives of protecting the population and building the resilience of society. It contains 52 measures for all sectors of activity, with 200 concrete actions in the short, medium and long term to adapt France and its overseas territories, to the visible and expected impacts of climate change: heat waves, floods, droughts, shrinkage-swelling of clays, coastal erosion, forest fires, loss of biodiversity, etc.
The expected benefits are: comfort and well-being of people; preservation of biodiversity; resilience of the economy; protection of cultural heritage, alongisde the reduction of vulnerability to climate risks, economic cost of climate change, CO2 emissions and artificialisation of soils.
It was formulated after 2 months of public consultation through 4 working groups: territories, biodiversity, economy, technical standards.
