Ecological performance / economic performance: incompatible?

Thierry Griveaux explains:

Covid reminded everyone that without logistics, it would be pointless to hope that a Zoom conference would be enough to feed, clothe and care for us during the various confinements. However, it is just as important to place environmental concerns at the heart of logistics real estate. That's the purpose of the reciprocal commitment charter we drew up with the French government to demonstrate our willingness to be environmentally proactive. In return, we wanted the government to commit to simplifying administrative procedures, improving access to brownfield sites and developing local, densified (multi-storey), multi-use, multi-level urban logistics for all logistics players.

The virtuous logic of this approach is not to give free rein to logistics but, on the contrary, to accelerate possible interventions on land - wasteland - that has already been developed for other uses. In this way, we can speed up projects that respond to the urgency imposed by the development of e-commerce and new consumption patterns. And the projects will be all the more acceptable to local residents if the industry undertakes to promote platforms that give pride of place to the treatment of green spaces, the development of biotopes and the systematic use of photovoltaics. Let's hope that this reciprocal commitment will save time, money and the art of living, without generating new visual nuisances!