What works in Lyon
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Evidence snapshot for Lyon
Lyon has established itself as a significant hub for foreign direct investment and business establishment through ONLYLYON Invest, which supports approximately 60 investment projects annually (40% foreign-owned) and has facilitated the establishment of over 1,300 companies since 1974, with 48 FDI projects creating 871 jobs in Lyon Métropole in 2023 alone. The city is also implementing Plan Canopée, an urban-forest strategy (2017–2030) that has increased public-space trees from 42,000 in 1990 to approximately 100,000, achieving roughly 27% canopy coverage with a target of 30%, and demonstrating cooling effects of 1–2°C under tree shelter. However, the practices reviewed do not document long-term tree survival, carbon sequestration, biodiversity gains, or other environmental outcomes beyond temperature and canopy metrics, and the urban-forest evidence is categorized as limited in scope.
Drawn from: ONLYLYON Invest — Economic Development Agency for International Business Establishment in Lyon · Lyon's Plan Canopée — A Metropolitan Urban-Forest Strategy to Cool the City and Even Out Tree Cover · Parity and Quotas in Politics
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Sustainability / continuity +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Curator validation -13 pts 60 here · 73 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -48 pts 0 here · 48 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Lyon. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
ONLYLYON Invest — Economic Development Agency for International Business Establishment in Lyon · 71
Lyon's Plan Canopée — A Metropolitan Urban-Forest Strategy to Cool the City and Even Out Tree Cover · 20
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more