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If it is difficult to imagine a neighborhood doing without cars for several weeks , the degree of difficulty increases when it is a large city that decides to move only with bicycles, even if it is for a day. This is the challenge that Paris has decided to take, and that will become a reality on September 27. Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced the decision in March, saying, as reported by Forbes : "Paris will be totally transformed for one day. “This is an opportunity for Parisians and tourists to enjoy the city without noise, pollution and therefore without stress.” Not the entire city will be car-free, but the congested areas and those most visited by tourists will be. Among them: Champs-Elysées, Place Stalingrad, Place de la République, the Bastille Palace, the area near the Eiffel Tower, the left bank, the Bois de Vincennes and the neighborhoods 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 10 and 11. The idea, according to the city hall, is that pedestrians can "discover a new Paris." The initiative, called Une Journée Sans Voiture ("A day without cars"), will take place in context with two very important events for the French capital: the European Mobility Week , which will take place in that city from the 16th to the 22nd. September, and the UN Climate Conference (COP 21), which it will host in November of this year .
Several civil organizations, including Paris Sans Voiture , have expressed their approval of the measure. A spokesperson for this NGO told Forbes that it is a response that reflects both global and local challenges and that it will leave "a lasting mark on the collective imagination: everyone can project a more livable city and adopt sustainable habits, particularly in terms of mobility and sharing public spaces." For several years now, the city of Paris has made significant efforts to become a greener metropolis, as evidenced by its car and bike sharing program and Europe Cell Phone Number List modifications to the Eiffel Tower to make it greener.On September 2, Enrique Peña Nieto presented his Third Government Report, a document of more than 600 pages (which can be read here ) in which the achievements of the year are detailed, as well as the challenges for the following year. Do sustainability and social responsibility enter into these issues? What is the vision of the president of Mexico in this regard? We will tell you below. Regarding social responsibility, many of the achievements emphasized by Peña Nieto are clearly related. Among them, gender diversity in politics, the creation of the Ministry of Culture and the fight against poverty. These points are also part of the 10 actions proposed by the president to face the country's greatest challenges.
However, absent from these ten actions is any mention of climate change or environmental care. In the document, the section called " Prosperous Mexico " includes several points dedicated to "green and facilitating growth", understood as a way to solve two pressing problems: climate change and the deterioration of natural resources and the creation of social development and decent jobs for all. Thus, Peña Nieto's administration created programs that link sustainability with benefits for society, implemented actions to move towards a low-carbon economy and to confront climate change, and promoted the conservation of the country's natural heritage, among other things. . Some of the results achieved in these topics, according to the Report, are: * Within the framework of the Land Management Program for Productive Sustainability, in 2015 3 million pesos will be invested in eight municipalities of Chiapas and Hidalgo, for the development of 11 additional community projects. As of June 2015, we worked with 985 direct beneficiaries (136 women and 849 men) on 511 hectares of degraded land as demonstration plots.