Ifri has celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019 and is ranked in the top-3 of the world's most influential think-tanks (Upenn Index). Its Center for Energy & Climate combines a unique expertise on energy & climate policies and European and global energy markets, technologies and value chains. In particular, the Center analyses the interplay between geopolitics, geo-economics and energy markets & policies. And how the traditional tensions around fossil fuels evolve and are complemented by new rivalries for other resources, norms, technologies, investments, value chains.
Through its reports, closed-door seminars and open events in Paris and Brussels, the Center for Energy & Climate is conducting forefront and independent research to provide strategic information and analyses to policy-makers, industry stakeholders, academia, media and the wider public. The Center is a leading voice in France and the European Union.
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The governance and financial structure of the Center ensures that our work is fully independent and of the highest quality and relevance. The Center is financed by Ifri partner institutions, organizations and companies as presented in Ifri's activity report.
The Steering Committee gathers representatives from the Center’s partners, the Director of Ifri, and the Director of the Center for Energy & Climate. Meetings of the Steering Committee provide our partners the opportunity to express their views on the general orientation of the Center.
Director of Ifri’s Center for Energy & Climate
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Research Fellow, Head of European energy and climate policies, Center for Energy & Climate
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Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Senior Advisor, Center for Energy & Climate
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Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center / Center for Energy and Climate
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Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Senior Advisor, Center for Energy & Climate
Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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Associate Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Climate
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This study analyses the likelihood of cyber attacks against European energy infrastructures and their potential consequences, particularly on the electricity grid. It also delivers a comparative analysis of measures taken by different European countries to protect their industries and...
On June 23rd, the UK voted 51.9% to 48.1% to leave the European Union. While the referendum outcome was not legally binding, the broad political consensus that has since emerged across both Remain and Brexit camps has been that the will of the majority must be upheld. So while the UK leaving...
Southeast Asia is one of the world's most dynamic regions and experiences strong economic and energy demand growth rates. In this context, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is seeking to interconnect the electric grids and gas networks of the countries...
This chapter covering the French energy transition model is part of a broader study conducted by the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), in preparation of the German Presidency of the G20. Based on the analysis of fourteen national strategies, the IASS study considers the...
This HET report assesses the impact of sustained low fossil fuel prices on the transition to a low carbon energy system.
What will become of US foreign policy under Donald Trump? A selection of Ifri researchers has come together to offer their thoughts on this question. Our experts cover an array of topics through 14 contributions, ranging from the future Sino-American relations, through US engagement in the...
In the context of liberalisation and the creation of a European electricity market, security conditions underlying the supply of electricity need to be reconsidered.
In December 2015, a new international climate agreement was adopted, paving the way for increased mitigation and adaptation efforts.
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; featuring a set of 17 measurable and time-bound Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with...
Since the announcement of the Nord Stream 2 project in June 2015, the debate around the benefits of this project for Europe is raging, putting forward political, economic and commercial arguments.
Dans le cadre de l'Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec la participation de Yurdakul Yigitgüden, ancien Sous-secrétaire d'Etat au Ministère turc de l'Energie, Elshad Nassirov, Vice-Président, SOCAR (tbc) et Brendan Devlin<...>
Conférence avec son Excellence Kristine L. Svinicki, commissaire de la US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Discutant : Luis Echavarri, directeur de l'Agence Energie Nucléaire, OCDE. Présidence : William C. Ramsay, directeur du Programme...
Avec la participation de Ian Cronshaw, chef de la Division Energy Diversification, Agence internationale de l'énergie, Tom Vanden Borre, DG Energie & Transport, Commission Européenne.
Moderateur : William C. Ramsay, directeur du...
Conférence avec Tatsuo Masuda, Professeur, Tokyo Institute of Technology (SIMOT) et professeur invité, Université Paris-Dauphine, André Mernier, Secrétaire Général, Energy Charter Secretariat, et Richard Jones, Directeur Adjoint, Agence...
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 ...
Dans le cadre de l'Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec Hinrich Thölken, conseiller économique à l'Ambassade d'Allemagne, Christophe Schramm, Bureau des Energies renouvelables, Ministère de l'Ecologie et du Développement durable, ...
Dans le cadre de l'Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec Jan Stuart, Global Oil Economist, UBS Securities LLC, Didier Houssin, Director of Energy Markets and Security, IEA, et Jan H. Keppler, Professor of Economics,...
Séminaire organisé à Bruxelles avec Didier Beutier, Vice President for Economic and Prospective Studies, Areva ; Alice de Brauer, VP Strategic Environmental Planning, Renault ; Koen Coppenholler, Head of European Government Relations, Arcelor...
Dans le cadre de l'Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec Jean-Eudes Moncomble, Secrétaire Général, French Energy Council et Domenico Rossetti, Scientific Officer, European Commission. Président : Jacques Lesourne,...
Dans le cadre de la Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, un séminaire avec Marie-Claire Aoun, Chercheur au Centre de Géopolitique de l'Energie et des Matières Premières, Université Paris Dauphine et Jean Pierre Favennec, Directeur, Centre Economie et...
2022
2021
Rapport d’activité 2021 Centre Énergie & Climat
Low carbon technologies and critical metals: Revisiting the criticality and implications for scaling up the deployment of low carbon technologies David against Goliath: The European Union facing the issue of critical minerals and metalsIfri Energy Transition Scorecard 2021 focusing on the European Union, China, the United States and Japan, Center for Energy & Climate, April 2021
Italy’s Energy and Climate Policies in the Post COVID-19 Recovery, Briefing Memo by Massimo Lombardini, February 2021
2020
2020 Activity Report of the Center for Energy & Climate: publications, conferences and outreach (in French).
2019
Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director, Ifri Center for Energy and Andriy Kobolyev, CEO, Naftogaz
Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director of Ifri Center for Energy, Tarek El Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt, Thomas Gomart, Director of Ifri
Presentation by Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director of Ifri Center for Energy, Workshop for Algerian delegation on future gas demand in the EU, European Commission, DG ENER, 19 March 2019, Brussels : EU gas demand perspectives by 2030
2018
2017
