The session will take place in B235 (Bienvenüe Building) and will be broadcast via videoconferencing.
By: François-Mathieu Poupeau, researcher at LATTS
Discussant: Virginie Boutueil, researcher at LVMT
Session based on the book:
"The State in Search of an Energy-Climate Strategy"
Presses des Mines, 2023
Energy and climate have become major concerns in France, challenging the State in its role as strategist. How is the State approaching this new role? How is it building its vision for the future? How is it setting the broad guidelines intended to respond to the challenges of combating climate change and energy transition? These questions are at the heart of this book, which examines the drafting, from 2017 to 2020, of the National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC) and the Multi-Year Energy Program (PPE). Based on an in-depth survey of the actors who participated in their development, it offers a unique contribution to the sociology of public administration and decision-making in a field that has yet to be thoroughly studied. It also identifies a little-known facet of the state's inaction on climate change: the powerlessness of the administration in charge of this issue in France. Relegated to a peripheral position in the bureaucratic hierarchy, with limited staff and resources, lacking real leverage for action, and receiving little support from politicians, this administration is struggling to generate the momentum for change needed to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.