Skiing: faced with climate change, the French economic model is “running out of steam”. “Starting in the 2000s, the decline in ski activity and the growing unsuitability of the resorts' real estate assets began to weaken the financial balance of the ski lifts and the local economy which partly results from it,” writes the Court of Auditors.

Diversification for the moment focused... on snow production “A phenomenon accentuated by climate change with an accelerating rise in temperatures”, according to the Court.