Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
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https://www.airparif.fr/sites/default/files/document_publication/BilanQA_IDF_2021_UK.pdf
https://www.airparif.fr/sites/default/files/document_publication/BilanQA_IDF_2022%20-%20ENG.pdf
https://aqicn.org/historical/de/#city:paris
Also no-one has any fridges or has seen their grandma in 15 years either. Very sad
Have areas far outside the city center improved similarly?
Germany is not Paris.
These are our figures for the period under review:
It is hard to give a firm number, but her policies have considerably reduced the proportion of car travel in Paris, by about 50%.
This is an important reduction, which may not explain the entire pollution reduction, but is good in and out of itself.
The region's air pollution also halved between 2004 & 2024 (NO2 by 45% since 2014: https://www.airparif.fr/actualite/2025/la-pollution-de-lair-en-baisse-en-2024-en-ile-de-france-avec-encore-des-impacts)
Thank you to the mayor of Paris! She did good.
Merci @annehidalgo.bsky.social
It’s a pity that data will take a while to accrue.
Rich people from the city center, while the poor that live in the suburbs and can´t use their car anymore have to pile up in a derelict public transit system to get to their shitty jobs as slaves for these same rich people!
First the banlieues are also much less polluted than before. You can see it on the maps.
Second, the banlieues are not necessary poor. Some are. A lot are not.
Last, it hasn't been a good idea to go to Paris with the car in a long long time...
That´s what started the Gilets Jaunes... Enjoy!
How can anyone afford anything in Paris intra-muros nowadays if they don´t earn at least €5000 a month and can prove colaterals across 10 generations?
I maintain my criticism on Paris´s housing crisis.
Poor people are less likely to have cars and more likely to suffer from air pollution.
Especially in the U.S., it goes right back to racism (and classism), because of white flight to the suburbs & marginalized communities getting an unfair share of pollution.