The french biodiversity law went through on august 8th although the guardian originally suggested it had become law back in 2015.
Green roofs in france law not passed.
Environmentalism is fast becoming a top concern in france a rooftop concern to be precise.
Under a law passed last week by the french parliament new buildings in commercial zones must partially cover their roofs.
Mistakenly reported on march 20th 2015 the apparent law made waves across twittersphere for nearly 12 months.
Excitingly the nation has just passed new legislation that will require all upcoming commercial construction projects to feature either green roofs or solar panels above their top floors.
This is the design for a sustainable high school planned to be built in revin france.
Environmental groups in france had called for a more stringent version of the law one which would have required new commercial construction to have complete green roof coverage.
Toronto was the first city in north america to pass a bylaw that maintained that green roofs must be included in the design of all new buildings.
Environmental activists had originally called for all for all rooftops to be 100 green but the government limited the scope of the law to include commercial buildings only.
France rules that all new buildings have either green roofs or solar panels inhabitat green design innovation architecture green building france has just passed a trailblazing new law that.
All new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels in france november 12 2019 at 2 06 pm frances s new green roof law is cooling city streets cutting heating and air conditioning costs reducing water and air pollution providing local organic food and ecosystems for birds bees and hundreds of other species.
The roof must be at least partially covered in either solar panels or plants.
The roofs reduce the damaging effects of acid rain by raiding the ph value of rain and runoff water.
But what does the law actually say.
And more to the point what do we think will be its impact in the long term.
March 25 2015 12 27 pm cbs news rooftops in france are going green.
Last week france passed legislation that requires all new commercial buildings be built with green roofs the law requires partial roof coverage with either solar panels or rooftop gardens.
We noticed at least 100 tweets last week alone.