Faced with climate change, Cerema adopts a new strategy

For this, the strategic plan affirms:

• the role of Cerema, a public service to improve the lives and living environment of the French: to think about the development of tomorrow, move towards high-performance buildings, encourage new modes of mobility, ensure travel safety, give back its place to nature, monitor and protect the coastline etc. ;
• the role of Cerema with local authorities: the strategic project strengthens dialogue with more than 400 local public and private actors to establish working guidelines as closely as possible to the realities and needs of the territories;
• the positioning of Cerema as the technical support base for the Ministries of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, in order to think about, concretely translate and support their priority public policies in the field.

Concretely, to achieve its ambitions, Cerema has adopted a climate roadmap for each of its 6 areas of expertise (territorial expertise and engineering, building, mobility, transport infrastructure, environment and risks, sea and coast, and creates 2 new establishments in the French overseas territories It also defines the conditions of its exemplary social, societal and environmental matters.

For Pascal Berteaud, CEO of Cerema: “The transformation of Cerema is underway to adapt our territories today to the climate of tomorrow. This strategic project is the foundation and its guidelines chart a clear path for the establishment well beyond its 2023 deadline: as long as the climate changes, Cerema will act. "

For Marie-Claude Jarrot, President of the Board of Directors of Cerema: "The unity of Cerema, associated with its establishment throughout the territory, is the guarantee of a public service of quality and proximity: when one of our teams is mobilized on a project, it is all the strength and all the expertise of Cerema which is mobilized. "

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