Solar panels or plants must be on new commercial roofs in France

No different than requiring proportions of parking spaces:
here’s one way

to push the solar deployment curve up faster

and hasten the year that most of the world’s power comes from the sun.

Agence France-Press 19 March 2015,

France decrees new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels
,



Rooftops on new buildings built in commercial zones in France must
either be partially covered in plants or solar panels, under a law
approved on Thursday.

Green roofs have an isolating effect, helping reduce the amount of
energy needed to heat a building in winter and cool it in summer.
The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming
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They also retain rainwater, thus helping reduce problems with
runoff, while favouring biodiversity and giving birds a place to
nest in the urban jungle, ecologists say.

-jsq