Decrease in energy consumption and tilting to the electric, deep agricultural reform … The book published by the Reflection Group The Shift Project details levers of action to lower 5% per year the emissions of Greenhouse gases.
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What could a France look like fossilless energies? In 2020, the country entered into the law the objective of achieving carbon neutrality in 2050. And almost all presidential candidates defend the idea of massively reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the effects of climate change. But concretely, few actors lent themselves to the exercise of drawing a France of the future, which liberated from coal, gas and oil. This is the ambitious and original work provided by the Reflection Group The Shift Project, chaired by Consultant Jean-Marc Jancovici, with the Transformation Plan of the French Economy (PTEF, Odile Jacob).
“Governance of the transition”
This book, the result of the collaboration of dozens of researchers and volunteers, summarizes the work begun almost two years ago to analyze, sector by sector, the consequences of a trajectory that would comply with the objectives of the Paris agreement on the climate. With in mind, a guideline: lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 5% per year. The result is very rich: the PTEF proposes a method of work to decarner both the transports of short and long term, the building, the automobile or the industry, than those of the culture, of the Public administration or health.
The first teaching is the need to tackle these topics in a transversal and structured way, with a strong anticipation capacity. Whatever the political choices made, the PTEF insists on the need for planning and calls to “put in place a governance of the transition”. Then, the approach relies on three main axes: drastically reduce energy consumption, limit material consumption and, finally, limit the exploitation of wood and forest resources.
This postulate, the logic of the PTEF is based on a tilting towards the electricity of many uses, including transport, heating or part of the industry. To do this, we must consume a little more electricity than today, by being more sober in many other areas. “Since the ridge line is narrow, you have to put all the chances on our side by leading the forehead efforts: sobriety, efficiency, nuclear and renewable”, writes the shift. A crucial but complex issue, taking into account the difficulties of rapid development of nuclear or solar and wind and reluctance vis-à-vis the notion of sobriety.
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