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Prospective

Climate-energy transition scenarios aim for France’s carbon neutrality by 2050 These narratives, physically and technically credible, explore different decarbonization strategies based on the country’s current situation and its emissions.

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Comprendre2050, a website to decipher the challenges of the transition

The result of a collaboration between The Shift Project (initiator and coordinator), ADEME, and the négaWatt Association, this joint effort of analysis is based on a rich set of scenarios and transition strategies to 2050: Transition(s) 2050 by ADEME, Futurs énergétiques 2050 by RTE, the négaWatt 2022 scenario, the Plan de transformation de l’économie française by The Shift Project, and the National Low-Carbon Strategy 2. In total, more than 5,000 pages of publications have been synthesized.

These analyses reflect a diversity of perspectives on the low-carbon transition and highlight their advantages and drawbacks, shedding light on the major societal choices ahead of us.

Découvrez Comprendre2050.fr et ses 150 fiches thématiques.

A few numbers about the project

  • 150

    Thematic analyses on key issues of the transition (agriculture, electricity, hydrogen, mobility, employment, biomass, etc.)
  • 5000

    Simplified summaries of foresight reports, validated by ADEME, négaWatt, and The Shift Project
  • 160

    Keywords to define the transition

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