One year ago, the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region launched the regional COP, which culminated in August 2024 in a planning document for the region's ecological transition. As is often the case, counter-intuitive and little-publicized elements emerged.

👉 France's 1st region in terms of volume and tonne.km for road haulage by heavy goods vehicles (32,000 million t.km)

👉 France's 1st industrial region with 505,000 employees on 61,000 sites

👉 The number of homes classified as F and G energy flats is above the French average: 18.1% of the housing stock, compared with 17.3% nationally

👉 A reduction target of 24.5 MtCO2eq between 2019 and 2030

👉 The sectors with the greatest decarbonation potential are industry (23% of the total), freight transport (15%), Agriculture/Forestry/Land (14%), passenger transport (14%), residential (13%) and tertiary (12%). The energy sector accounts for less than 5% of the region's decarbonization potential.

👉 7 levers account for more than 2/3 of the region's decarbonization levers: decarbonization of industry (19%), changing oil-fired boilers (10%), sobriety and insulation of buildings (9%), logistical efficiency and sobriety (8%), decarbonization and multimodality of freight transport (7%), changing gas-fired boilers (6%), forest management (6%), deployment of electric cars (6%).

👉 Sobriety in buildings accounts for only 20% of the potential reduction in building consumption, with insulation accounting for the remaining 80%.The same ratio applies to the deployment of biogas for heating buildings, and the elimination of gas boilers.

👉 On the energy side, electric renewable energies, biogas and heating networks all have roughly the same decarbonization potential.Capturing methane leaks saves 32% more CO2 than deploying biogas

👉 Transport: -10% road freight transport, -10% travel, -15% car use, 15% light electric vehicles

👉 Building: 80,000 homes renovated per year (oil/gas boiler replacement + insulation) for -15% reduction in energy consumption; -30% reduction in energy consumption in the tertiary sector.

👉 Industry: -40% of emissions from the 90 highest-emitting industrial sites in the region

👉 Agriculture: work to take place in 2nd half of 2024, conclusions yet to be published

👉 Energy/Waste: Zero landfill, reduce methane emissions from non-hazardous waste storage facilities (ISDND), 30 TWh of renewable heat, 50% increase in renewable electricity