PRESS RELEASE

12 March 2024

THE 2024 ANNUAL PUBLIC REPORT

Key elements

The 2024 edition of the annual public report published today includes:

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725 pages over two volumes

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62 recommendations

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Contributions from 6 Court chambers, 17 Regional and Territorial Chambers of Accounts

(RTCAs), 5 inter-jurisdictional panels (common to the Court and a RTCA)

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Contributions from almost 60 rapporteurs

Public action in the face of climate change at the heart of the 2024 APR

After taking stock of 40 years of decentralisation in 2023, the financial courts are devoting the theme of

this year's annual public report to public action in the face of climate change. Due to its varied and

diffuse nature, adapting to the effects of climate change is a challenge that concerns and must involve

all public stakeholders. To assess the scope of adaptation policies, the financial courts have provided an

overview of the resources put in place in various sectors. This cross-sectoral exercise is all the more

necessary given that adaptation policies weigh heavily on national and local public finances at the same

time as they affect households.

The 2024 APR includes:

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An initial chapter describing the overall situation of the public finances at the end of February

2024

, after two years characterised by strong inflationary pressures and high energy prices.

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An introduction to the adaptation of public action in the face of climate change

, looking at the

various measures that have been put in place and the need to adapt them given the progressive

nature of climate change.

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16 chapters

divided into three parts:

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The first part of the APR describes the changes under way in the climate in France and

around the world, and the inadequacy of the efforts being made to limit the

phenomenon:

3 chapters on the stakeholders involved in this adaptation - including

public research and financial and banking institutions.

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The second part includes 7 chapters which analyse the implementation of this adaptation

in the living environment and infrastructures,

by referring in particular to the issue of

housing, towns and cities, and transport networks.

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The third part devotes 6 chapters to the natural environment and the protection of

people and activities,

including the sustainable management of forests in mainland

France and coastlines, preventing natural disasters in overseas France and protecting

the health of vulnerable people.