Big French project sunk by fears of sea level rise

Climate impact: A worker at the Caen peninsula site in France. If the sea level rises by a metre, the area would flood every week, an urban planner says. — AFP

Caen (France): An ambitious housing project in the north-western French city of Caen has run aground over worries that rising waters driven by climate change could make the area unlivable within the century.

Conceived in the early 2010s, the development was to transform a strip of industrial wasteland between the River Orne and the canal linking Caen to the sea into 2,300 homes, as well as tens of thousands of square metres of office space.