After a summer of exceptional heat episodes, the City of Paris announced on Tuesday 29 September a set of measures to speed up its adaptation to climate change. The largest item is €400 million for schools, and some measures are due to be operational as early as next summer.

Schools: €400 million over the mandate

The heatwaves of summer 2026 led the city to carry out emergency works in around a hundred schools: 81 classrooms received air circulators, 35 new oasis schoolyards were created and the outer window and door frames of 28 schools were replaced. The aim is to have one cooled room in every crèche, school and collège by summer 2027. The plan also includes:

  • solar protection in more than 360 establishments;
  • air circulators in nearly 130 establishments;
  • 245 oasis schoolyards and 70 shaded or misted schoolyards in total.

The city will mobilise €400 million over the mandate for this plan. For cooled rooms it will favour solutions that limit heat released into public space: connection to the Fraîcheur cooling network, geothermal energy and trials based on drinking water or sewer networks. Oasis schoolyards come from the resilience strategy adopted by the Council of Paris in September 2017, and an earlier city page counted 203 oasis yards and 5 oasis crèches since then.

Shade sails and green space

The first shade sail was installed on rue Jomard in the 19th arrondissement, and 99 more will follow in the coming weeks and months, notably in streets that cannot be planted because of underground constraints. In the longer term, Paris aims to open 300 hectares of additional green space to the public by 2040, the equivalent of 420 football pitches. It will draw on land listed in the local urban plan (PLU), existing partner gardens and municipal facilities such as sports grounds and cemeteries. 70 hectares were delivered between 2020 and 2026, and the target is a further 230 hectares by 2040.

Housing and vulnerable residents

All social housing that needs them will have shutters by the end of the mandate, alongside the goal of renovating 5,000 social homes each year. Climate refuges with cooled common areas will be set up in social residences. The REFLEX scheme, which contacted up to 10,000 people a day in summer 2026, will be extended to new vulnerable groups, including recipients of the APA autonomy allowance. From 2027 the city also plans to prioritise adapting the most exposed rooms in social and medico-social establishments. Bathing sites in the Seine and canals, which welcomed 183,000 people in eight weeks in 2026, will open from June 2027.