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Accelerating the Energy Transition in the Southern Mediterranean

Date de publication
16 September 2019
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The Mediterranean region has been identified as one of the most affected regions by climate change endangering human security at the food-water-energy nexus. 

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Offshore Wind Power Floating in its Industrial and Technological Dimension

Date de publication
09 July 2019
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Europe has become a frontrunner in fixed offshore wind. Can this success story be replicated with floating offshore wind, a technology that would lift the sea depth constraint and thus open up wider market opportunities? This research study looks at the main success factors for this emerging industry.

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Sustaining Multilateralism in a Multipolar World. What France and Germany Can Do to Preserve the Multilateral Order

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03 June 2019
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While international multilateralism is under strain, it is vital for France and Germany to defend it, since it is the most appropriate system for preserving their interests – particularly in terms of welfare, security, prosperity and environmental protection. Against this backdrop, three political fields offer opportunities for joint initiatives: trade, conventional arms control and climate change.

Claire DEMESMAY, Visiting professor, Alfred Grosser Research Chair, Sciences Po Barbara KUNZ
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Strategic Dimensions of the Energy Transition: Challenges and Responses for France, Germany and the European Union

Date de publication
29 April 2019
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The low-carbon energy transition in France, the European Union (EU) and the world is today taking place unevenly and too slowly to preserve the climate and biodiversity. CO2 emissions are continuing to rise, while governments’ commitments are insufficient: in the long-term, the world is set to see temperatures increase by +3°C. Efforts to fund adaptation measures still need to be strengthened considerably.

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Biogas and Biomethane in Europe: Lessons from Denmark, Germany and Italy

Date de publication
11 April 2019
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At a time when the European Union (EU) is discussing its long-term climate strategy and drafting new legislation to foster the decarbonization of its gas sector, a close look at the experience of Denmark, Germany and Italy with renewable gas production can provide valuable lessons. 

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Shaping the Global Governance of Renewables: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Date de publication
11 March 2019
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Over the past decade, facilitating the widespread deployment of renewable energy sources (RES) and enabling their integration within the energy systems has become a central priority for various international organizations (IO) and initiatives. 

Amélie LOUGSAMI
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The need for a strategic recycling approach to take up the challenge of critical metals

Date de publication
10 December 2018
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In September 2010, China stopped all exports of rare earths and associated products to Japan, depriving Japan’s industry of essential raw materials. This decision highlighted the tensions around the trade of critical materials and China’s monopoly on a group of particular metals. Western countries had already taken some initiatives so as to reduce, or at least to analyse their vulnerabilities in the segment of critical materials. 

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Japan’s Hydrogen Strategy and Its Economic and Geopolitical Implications

Date de publication
08 October 2018
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With the Basic Hydrogen Strategy (hereafter, the Strategy) released on December 26, 2017, Japan reiterated its commitment to pioneer the world’s first “Hydrogen Society”. The Strategy primarily aims to achieve the cost parity of hydrogen with competing fuels, such as gasoline in transport and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) in power generation. 

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The Trump-led Trade War with China: Energy Dominance Self-destructed?

Date de publication
24 September 2018
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Under particular US legal rationale, such as calling foreign imports a “national security threat”, President Donald Trump has started imposing tariffs and/or quotas and has launched national security investigations on a growing number of imported goods from US allies and others alike.

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Super-synergies could arise from cross-border projects

30 July 2018
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Shared projects, shared tenders and joint R&D projects could see low-cost offshore windfarms and interconnectors criss-crossing the North Sea.

 

Renewables in Transport: Directive 2009/28/EC - Devils in its Details

Date de publication
10 February 2011
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This Actuelle precedes a longer and more exhaustive paper on Electric Vehicles, under the title "The Electric Vehicle in the Climate Change Race: Tortoise, Hare or both?" by Maïté de Boncourt.

As part of the 3*20 targets reached in December 2008, the EC decided that the EU should, by 2020, source 20% of its Final Energy Consumption (FEC) renewably. 

Sam WILKIN

German Power Options: Lack of Clarity Will Be Costly

Date de publication
22 March 2010
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The German environment minister Norbert Röttgen (CDU) revived the German debate about the future of nuclear power in February when he argued for a limited lifetime extension of Germany’s nuclear plants.

Christian SCHÜLKE

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