Loos-en-Gohelle, pilot town for sustainable development Loos-en-Gohelle, ville pilote du Développement durable

Located in the heart of the Hauts-de-France Mining Basin, Loos-en-Gohelle suffered directly from the shock of the closure of the mines at the end of the 1980s. To make the transition from an unsustainable mining model, Loos-en-Gohelle signed a partnership protocol in 2014 with the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME), which recognized it as “a national pilot of transition towards sustainable cities”. In this context, the municipality put in place systems to inform, consult, and include citizens in projects aimed at transitioning from coal to renewable energies, from thermal sieves to eco-construction, and rehabilitating landscapes devastated by mining activities, etc.