The Shift Project

The Shift Project
The Shift Project logo
Formation1 January 2010; 12 years ago (2010-01-01)
TypeNonprofit / Think-tank
Headquarters16–18 rue de Budapest
Paris France
Region
Île-de-France
President
Jean-Marc Jancovici
Director
Matthieu Auzanneau
Key people
Alain Grandjean, Gaël Giraud, Hervé Le Treut, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
Websitetheshiftproject.org/en

The Shift Project (also called The Shift or TSP) is a French nonprofit created in 2010 that aims to limit both climate change and the dependency of our economy on fossil fuels.

Presentation, goals and organization

The Shift Project is a French nonprofit[1] created in January 2010 in Paris by energy-climate experts such as Jean-Marc Jancovici, Geneviève Férone-Creuzet and Michel Lepetit.[2] The organization aims to address two issues raised by the use of carbon: climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels. The Shift works as a think tank that shares ideas with economic, political, academic and voluntary actors.

The Shift Project is funded by corporate sponsors.[1] Its budget for 2017 was about 600,000 euros.[3]

The organization is led by a group of three people elected by the board of directors, which includes members of the sponsoring companies. A group of experts, called Expert Committee (Comité des experts),[4] ensures the scientific validity of the work done by The Shift Project. This group of experts (in economics, finance, climate, physics, history...) includes Alain Grandjean, Gaël Giraud, Hervé Le Treut, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele and Jacques Treiner. At the creation of the think tank, the first director is Cédric Ringenbach. He stays at this position until 2016, when he leaves The Shift Project and creates nonprofit organization The Climate Collage.[5] Now headed by Matthieu Auzanneau, The Shift has a team of about ten employees and works with volunteers who are grouped into an independent nonprofit called The Shifters.[4]

The Shift examines the dependency of our economy on oil[6] through three angles: the potential return of economic growth,[7] the issues related to the finite amount of oil[8] and, of course, the climate change due to carbon emissions. According to The Shift, although the GDP may have use cases, it is not really useful,[9] especially because it does not consider natural resources (so it does not account for their limited availability) or resulting externalities like greenhouse gas emissions.

Projects, events and activities

Since 2012, The Shift Project has organized an annual two-day meeting called The Shift Forum[4] with the objective of running a debate between big industrial and financial company leaders and experts on climate, energy and economics. The Shift also organizes many public events,[10] sometimes in collaboration with other organizations like the Business and Climate Summit 2015[11] or the World Efficiency 2015.[12]

The nonprofit also contributed to the National Debate for Energy Transition in France[13][14] and its president, Jean-Marc Jancovici, is a member of the French Committee on Climate Change.[15]

Main publications

The Shift mostly works in task forces: for a couple of months or years, a group of experts (from higher education and academic research, NGOs, public sector, companies...) is set up on a well-defined question. When the project ends, the task force writes a report and presents it to concerned actors. The report is then made publicly available.

Addressed issues include the building rehabilitation to make them more energy-efficient,[16] the relation between energy and GDP,[17][18][19] alternative metrics to GDP,[20] the scientific rigor of energy scenarios,[21] sustainable mobility[22] or the price of carbon.[23][24]

For the price of carbon in Europe, the Shift suggests to set a reservation price to 20 euros and increase it every year.[25]

Since 2013, The Shift has been gathering experts on the energy rehabilitation of buildings and made propositions like the Energy Efficiency Passport.[26] In addition to being experimented by the Shift through the nonprofit organization Expérience P2E,[27] this building passport was then included in the Energy Transition Law and is now used by various actors in the building industry.[28]

2016년 더 시프트 프로젝트 의뢰로 엔지니어 프란시스코 루치아노는 SNCF, 빈치 오토아웃스, EDF, CVTC, 카셰어링 스타트업, 올리비에 폴-두부아-테인 수석 관계자, 연구원 등 전문가들로 팀을 꾸렸다. 더 시프트는 2017년 9월 더 시프트와 프로젝트 리더 프란시스코 루치아노가 교통부로부터 모빌리티 재단[30] 및 다양한 정부 워킹그룹에 참석하도록 초청받은 '중밀도 지역 디카르본화-탄소 더 적은 채권'[29] 보고서를 발간했다. 논쟁의 여지가 많고 양적인 것을 목표로 하는 이 보고서는 사이클링, 자동차 공유, 빠른 대중 교통 덕분에 교외 지역의 모빌리티를 강력하게 탈탄소화하는 것이 가능하다는 결론을 내리고 있다. 실무진은 물품 인도와 원격근무도 연구했다.

2018년 10월 4일 싱크탱크는 디지털 경제가 기후와 환경에 미치는 영향에 대한 보고서를 발간했다.[31] 보고서는 디지털 경제의 전 세계 에너지 소비량이 대부분의 경제 분야와 달리 에너지 효율이 악화되면서 매우 빠른 속도(연간 약 9%)로 증가하고 있다고 지적했다. 이 결론은 이러한 영향 성장의 대부분을 최소화하기 위해 디지털 금주를 옹호하는 것으로 끝을 맺는다.[32]

기후 공약: 2017년 유럽 선언문 디카본화

경제 행위자들의 행동에 대한 요구

이 연구소는 2017년 3월 21일 '유럽 매니페스토 디카본라이즈(Decarbonize Europe Manifesto)'라는 글의 서명자를 공개했다. 이 글은 파리협정 이후 15개월 만에 경각심을 일깨우는 통화로 묘사된다.[33] 그것은 "유럽의 탄소를 제거하기 위한 이 선언의 서명국들은 모든 유럽 국가들이 2050년까지 온실 가스 배출량을 거의 0에 가깝게 달성하는 것을 목표로 하는 정책을 즉각 시행할 것을 촉구한다!"[34]로 시작하고 "평화 보장"[35]을 목표로 한다. 결론은 다음과 같다. "우리는 개인, 기업, 공공 기관 등 모든 유럽 행위자들이 기후 변화와 천연자원의 한계로 인해 야기되는 도전을 충족시킬 수 있는 구체적이고 일관성 있는 전략을 시행할 것을 촉구한다.http://decarbonizeurope.org/en/" Shift 프로젝트는 유럽의 탈탄소화가 과제라고 주장하지만 현대적인 미래를 위해 필요하다.

It is supported by more than 3,000 citizens including 80 company directors and around forty scientists and political figures. The press mainly mentions the signature of economic leaders like the magazine Challenges: "Climate: Why the company directors (at last) unite to decarbonize Europe".[36]

The think tank then called candidates running for president for a commitment in favor of a European plan to fight climate change that would abide by the Paris Agreement[37]

Signatories of the Manifesto

Company directors who signed the Manifesto include[38] Elisabeth Borne (RATP), Martin Bouygues (Bouygues), Patricia Barbizet (Artémis-Kering), Guillaume Pepy (SNCF), Christophe Cuvillier (Unibail Rodamco), Nicolas Dufourq (BPI France), Pierre Blayau (Caise centrale de réassurance), Stéphane Richard (Orange), Alain Montarant (MACIF), Nicolas Théry (Crédit mutuel), Denis Kessler (SCOR), Xavier Huillard (Vinci), Jean-Dominique Senard (Michelin) and Agniès Ogier (Thalys).

Scientists who signed the Manifesto include climatologists like Jean Jouzel, Hervé Le Treut and Jean-Pascal van Ypersele; the biologist and senior official Dominique Dron; the mathematician Ivar Ekeland; physicists like Sébastien Balibar, Roger Balian and Yves Bréchet; economists like Gaël Giraud, Roger Guesnerie, Philippe Aghion, Christian de Perthuis, Jean-Marie Chevalier and Jean-Charles Hourcade; directors of grandes écoles like Meriem Fournier (AgroParis-Tech Nancy), Olivier Oger (EDHEC) and Vincent Laflèche (Mines ParisTech).

Other people who signed it include former ministers like Arnaud Montebourg, Serge Lepeltier, the Belgian Philippe Maystadt and the president of the union CFE-CGC François Hommeril.

Nine proposals

The Shift Project published "9 propositions to take Europe to a new area" about as many projects that should be done imperatively to meet the Paris Agreement, according to the Shift. The AFP specifies that these propositions are made "in parallel with the Manifesto" and are not "endorsed by the signatories".[39] The daily economic newspaper Les Échos highlights the "plan for a "carbon-free" Europe"[40]

이 명제는 전기, 운송, 건설, 산업, 식품, 농업, 임업 등 7개 분야에 해당된다. 그것들은 "탈탄화하자!"[41]라는 책에 깊이 묘사되어 있다.

참조

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