In line with the principles of openness, transparency, and accountability in public action, the Ministry of Ecological Transition, in conjunction with the Ministry of Territorial Planning, makes available a new version of the Public Information Directory (PID).
This reference document, published in July 2025, provides an overview of the main documents containing public information produced or held by the central administration of the two ministries. It meets a dual legal requirement:
- Article L. 322-6 of the Code of Relations between the Public and Administration (CRPA), which requires administrations to publish a directory of communicable documents;
- Article L. 124-7 of the Environmental Code, which provides for the establishment of an inventory of categories of environmental information accessible to the public.
The drafting and formatting of the document were ensured by Ecolab, the public innovation lab of the General Commission for Sustainable Development (CGDD), in a logic of improving access to information and enhancing digital commons.
So, why a directory?
In a landscape where public information is increasingly dense and distributed across multiple platforms, the PID aims to make the documentary offer of the ministry more readable and accessible. It serves as a useful guidance tool for all audiences — citizens, elected officials, businesses, journalists, researchers — by facilitating the identification of relevant resources according to areas of interest.
The PID allows users to identify, for each theme, the available documents, their nature (raw files, databases, reports, visualizations…), their accessibility, their update date, as well as any reuse conditions.
Objective: structured access to the wealth of public data
The document lists hundreds of resources organized into major themes, reflecting the diversity of public policies carried out by the ministries:
- Ecological transition and climate: low-carbon indicators, energy data, climate change adaptation plan, CarbuRe data, energy vouchers…
- Mobility and transport: data from air, rail, road transport, carpooling, platforms like France Mobilités or Transport.data.gouv.
- Territorial planning and urbanism: Urbanism Geoportal, Sitadel data, RNB, Datafoncier portal, territorial observatories…
- Biodiversity and natural environments: NatureFrance portals, GeoMCE, INPN, CARHAB, Natura 2000 sites, SIB, data on ecological compensations…
- Risks and environmental health: Georisques platforms, AIDA, Vigicrues, phytosanitary BNVD, Green Data for Health…
- Circular economy and responsible consumption: waste directories (Trackdéchets, SYDEREP), reparability index, ADEME’s Footprint Base…
- Geographic data and open data: INSPIRE Geocatalog, GeoIDE, schemas.data.gouv.fr, regional platforms (GéoBretagne, SIGLoire, PIGMA, etc.)
- Environmental dialogue and evaluation: SIDE, environmental authority reports, publications from the General Inspectorate…
Each resource is contextualized and accompanied by direct links to the portals where it can be consulted or downloaded (for example: ecologie.data.gouv.fr, notre-environnement.gouv.fr, geoportail.gouv.fr, etc.).
A concrete contribution to data openness and public innovation
The provision of the Public Information Directory is part of a broader approach to promoting data as a common good. It responds to a growing demand from territories, project leaders, startups, and researchers, who rely on these resources to design, evaluate, and oversee ecological transition actions.
The PID also serves as a support tool for the implementation of public policies, consolidating a common base of reliable and up-to-date information. It thus strengthens the effectiveness of the right of access to environmental information, which is a constitutional right.
For Ecolab, this directory enhances the ecosystem of data useful for public innovation projects and territorial approaches, in a spirit of digital commons and openness to reuse.
Annual updates ensure sustainability
The Directory is designed as a living tool, which will undergo annual updates. It will thus adapt to regulatory changes, the emergence of new data sets, or the transformation of public digital services.
Learn more
🔗 https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/repertoire-informations-publiques
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Ecolab encourages the dissemination, reuse, and creative exploitation of public data to build the ecological transition policies of tomorrow. This directory constitutes an essential foundation to support this collective dynamic.