Get real about carbon pricing – fast
Open paths and dead ends towards carbon neutrality. We’re almost there, yet everything remains to be done. The climate agreement about to be brokered by the international community boils down […]
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Key economic leaders call for carbon price and European industrial policy
On October 15th at World Efficiency, The Shift Project brought together the leaders of Total, Areva, EDF and E.ON Renewables, as well as a representative of the European Commission for […]
Low-carbon solutions take center stage at World Efficiency
The first edition of World Efficiency was held Oct 13-15 in Paris. An international showcase of business solutions for climate and resources, the event highlighted the need to engage in […]
Mark Carney’s historical speech: the finance world must take climate risk into account
M. Carney, Chairman of the Financial Stability Board (the very respectable G20 international institution) says out loud what global finance managers think out loud. And there he is, strongly criticized […]
HEC’s pre-COP21 event: “Climate is our Business”
On October 1st, The Shift Project participated in the leading French business school’s major pre-COP21 event: « Climate is our business ». HEC had organized numerous roundtables and side-events as […]
IPCC Vice-Chair Jean-Pascal van Ypersele releases a book
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, IPCC Vice-Chair (2008-2015) and member of The Shift Project’s scientific committee, has just released a book titled “Une vie au coeur des turbulences climatiques” (“A life at […]
Amy Dahan on the failures and possibilities of climate governance
The Shift Project was delighted to welcome Amy Dahan, a science historian and mathematician whose book sheds a unique light on climate governance. The study, co-written with Mr. Stefan Aykut, […]
Fossil-fuel supply in Europe: potential restrictions on the horizon!
The think tank Friends of Europe has released a publication in english by Matthieu Auzanneau, Public Affairs and Forecasting Manager for the Shift, about the future of the fossil-fuel supply in […]
Don’t rejoice too hastily: declining oil prices are misleading
Pierre-René Bauquis, a geologist and economist, member of the scientific board of the Shift Project, wrote an article in Les Echos on behalf of the ASPO (Association for the Study […]