Paper Short Abstract:

In 2021, I was invited by the City of Paris to participate in a group of experts to prepare the Paris 2050 climate plan. I will question the conditions of the proposed debate on the production of futures, and reflect on the proposed working method.

Paper Abstract:

In 2021, I was invited by the City of Paris to participate in a group of experts made up of researchers from different disciplines working with stakeholders as part of the preparation of Paris 2050 climate plan. Their aim is to produce a series of notebooks summarizing the state of scientific knowledge at the regional level on climate extremes and hazards, territorial vulnerabilities and social dynamics, etc. I was asked to contribute to the notebook on the working classes and the socio-environmental transition in Paris and its suburbs. This notebook takes a transversal approach to the problem of the vulnerability of a specific category of the population, the working classes, to climate change, due on the one hand to their over-exposure to climatic hazards and on the other to their stigmatization.

The aim of this communication is to present the notebook's production process with a view to questioning the methods of implementation and the role of interdisciplinarity and relations with the city's departments in the co-writing of an action scenario aiming to propose a sustainable future for Paris in an expected context of harsher urban living conditions and changing lifestyles.

Firstly, I will examine how the terms of the proposed debate on the production of futures as part of a scenario-building exercise to adapt a territory to climate change shapes the debate. Secondly, I will reflect on the proposed working method and the impact of the scientific and professional multidisciplinarity of the players involved in the production of scenariis.