“Indeed, European energy sovereignty and transition depend on Europe, not only on member states in a disorganized manner, risking increasing our dependence on external sources and the cost of our energy,” supports Carine Sebi. The ambition of the book is to highlight the need to strengthen the European green industry to ensure the sustainability of our energy future. Because the rest of the world is not waiting for us in this revolution. But Europe must assert itself, with ambition and audacity, in this direction.”
13 May 2024
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Energy Policies: How to Avoid a European Dystopia ?
The Energy for Society Chair at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is the initiator of the European Energy Meetings, which will take place on May 14, 2024, in the late afternoon at GEM. Organized with the support of Confrontations Europe and the partners and patrons of the chair including Air Liquide, Banque Populaire AuRA, ENGIE, GRDF, and ADEME, this conference-debate is, for the first time, held in the perspective of the European elections of June 2024. The event aims to alert decision-makers to the risks of European disunity in energy policy.
On May 14th, at GEM, the debates will be moderated by Antoine de Ravignan, deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Alternatives Economiques.
Questioning the Relevance of European Energy Policies
During these European Energy Meetings, the objective is to bring together and give a voice to political representatives, including those from parties such as Les Républicains, Les Ecologistes, Mouvement Démocrate, Renew Europe, the Socialist Party, and energy experts.
Two economists, Patrick Criqui, emeritus research director at CNRS, and Carine Sebi, teaching and research fellow at GEM, along with Michel Derdevet, political scientist at Confrontations Europe, the co-authors of the book “Energy: Regaining European Ambition,” will directly challenge the political party representatives based on the fundamentals of the book. With one imperative: to define an energy roadmap and coordinate efforts to ensure affordable, efficient, green, and sovereign energy in Europe.
Between fiction and reality, the collective work “Energy: Regaining European Ambition,” published in early May by Descartes & Cie Editions, allows the reader to understand the global and national challenges of energy policies and shows that solutions already exist, but they require ambition and political coordination.
