Every month, franceinfo offers a new meeting closer to the solutions implemented to fight against global warming. Ninth stage: Asnelles, in Normandy.
franceinfo is closer to the concerns of the French, with its new appointment Carbon(n)e footprint, presented by Frédéric Carbonne, each month, in a region of France. Objective: to be as close as possible to the solutions implemented to combat climate change and its consequences.
>> REPORT. “We see the sea rising more and more”: in Normandy, a campsite pays the price for climate change
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On Friday February 10, the Carbon(n) Footprint stops off at Asnelles, a seaside resort in Calvados, where nearly a third of homes are threatened by rising sea levels. Its beach, like all those of the landing, is eaten away by erosion, weakening the vestiges of history. To preserve this coastline, the dykes will soon no longer be enough.
In Asnelles, as in the neighboring towns, studies are underway to best adapt the protective measures and make people accept the inevitable: moving from the seaside.
Coastal erosion: when protecting is no longer enough.
franceinfo is installed on the dyke of Asnelles, with Alain Scribe, mayor of Asnelles, Arnaud Tanquerel, president of Ter’Bessin, union of municipalities at the origin of studies for the preservation of the coast and which must now face the refusal of insurance to cover the damage linked to the rise in sea level, as well as Stéphane Costa, professor at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, co-president of the IPCC Normandy, specialist in the coast.
Tourism, real estate… How to maintain activity when the sea rises?
From the holiday center, Les Tamaris, in Asnelles, Frédéric Carbonne interviews Benoît Lebreton, real estate agent at the Agence du Cap in Saint Aubin-sur-Mer, who observes an ever-strong demand for seaside real estate, despite a reinforced duty to inform about the risks and stricter legislation on coastal constructions. To talk about it also: Philippe Cévaër, manager of Tamaris, a holiday village at the foot of Asnelles beach, which regularly experiences flooding, Tony Derozier, project manager at the Conservatoire du littoral, in charge in particular of the preservation of the landing beaches , and Charles de Vallavieille, mayor of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and head of the Utah Beach museum, threatened to move in the face of rising waters.