24/04/2020
There is now a wide understanding that larger use of clean hydrogen in future can be an important mean to achieve decarbonisation of the European economy.
Climate policies and energy transition
The Climate policies and energy transition research axis whithin Ifri's Center for Energy & Climate deals with the climate change policies adopted at national levels, as well as the positions of the main emitting countries in the international climate negociations. In particular, this area focuses on the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate and global efforts to reduce green-house gas emissions to limit the increase of temperature at +1,5° by 2100.
Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA
Director of Ifri’s Center for Energy & Climate
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Diana-Paula GHERASIM
Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Hugo LE PICARD
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Cédric PHILIBERT
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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15/04/2020
Green finance has been a burgeoning sector since the Paris Agreement and is at the crossroads of financial, socio-economic and environmental challenges. It is hybrid in nature: it uses financial instruments and focuses on environmental issues, while coming under the wider field of so-called ...
25/03/2020
South Korea is a hydrogen (H2) frontrunner. The world’s first commercial fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) was launched by the South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai (Tucson i×35) in 2013.
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11/03/2020
Although it is still marginal, the market for electric vehicles (EVs) is growing. According to the French Institute of Petroleum and Renewable Energies (IFPEN, Institut Français du Pétrole et des Énergies Renouvelables), EVs accounted for a little more than 2% of the light vehicle market in...
10/03/2020
The economies of the Persian Gulf are highly dependent on their petrol exports, particularly to Asia.
03/03/2020
The European Union (EU)’s Green Deal is a game changer with attention so far focused on forthcoming actions plans, the Climate Law, financial resources, the revision of the 2030 targets and of the emissions trading system (ETS).
14/01/2020
French stakeholders in civilian nuclear energy are making a full diagnosis of the industry in order to cope with disappointments and lay down the conditions for relaunching programs for building reactors.
06/12/2019
Environmental issues have frequently enjoyed bipartisan support in American history: the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1963 under Democratic President Johnson, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in 1970 under Republican President Nixon.
08/10/2019
2019 has marked a fundamental turning point in the energy transition of the European Union (EU).
19/09/2019
The world plastic production has been multiplied by 23 since 1964 to reach 348 million tonnes (mt) in 2017. This production level is expected to double in the next 20 years, largely because of the significant growth in plastic consumption in developing countries. Today, China is the...
05
Mar
2015
28
Nov
2014
from 08:30 to 10:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Towards COP21: The South Korean Perspective
Séminaire fermé sur invitation
28
Oct
2014
from 08:30 to 10:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Climate Change: Australian Domestic Policy Response Séminaire CDC Climat-Ifri
With Dr Gordon de Brouwer, Secretary of the Australian Department of the Environment
27
Feb
2014
from 16:00 to 18:00
- External Events
Présentation du World Energy Outlook de l'AIE- Contexte énergétique mondial et transition énergétique nationale
L'AIE vient de publier l'édition 2013 de son rapport Energy "World Energy Outook" (WEO) qui analyse les perspectives énergétiques mondiales d'ici 2035. Quel impact sur la compétitivité des grandes régions du monde ? Où en sont les marchés pétroliers ? Comment donner corps aux politiques d...
08
Nov
2010
from 08:00 to 16:15
- Conférences
Climate Negotiations in Cancun: Determinants for Change
The objective of this seminar is to try and outline the tendencies, processes or determinants that could affect climate negotiations between COP 15, in Copenhagen, and the upcoming conference in Cancún, and possibly alter its results: the increasing and increasingly visible impacts of climate...
29
Mar
2010
from 09:00 to 16:45
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
Making norms work for the environment
With the participation of Laurence Tubiana and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (availability permitting)
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04
Feb
2009
from 08:30 to 11:00
- Seminars and Round-table Conferences
The Global Environment Facility - Addressing Global Issues: the use of trust funds.
What tools can we design to address and manage global environmental issues? How effective are the ones that exist today? The third issue of the Health & Environment Reports will take up such questions through the study of the Global Environment Facility ...