Marc Fontecave, Professor at the Collège de France and holder of the Chemistry of Biological ProcessesChair, will give a lecture on Saturday 25 November 2023 at 11 h, on the theme " Energy transition : questions and perspectives ".
Climate and environmental challenges are forcing the advent of an energy transition towards a new world, one that is more energy-efficient, more electric and emits lessCO2. This transition requires above all the development of fundamental, technological and industrial research, and ever greater innovation, in the fields of energy production, transport, industry and construction. We'll be discussing recent trends in greenhouse gas emissions, the global and French energy mix, the scientific and technological challenges we face to reduce our carbon footprint by 2050, possible and realistic energy mixes, with a rising share of electricity and solutions to be found for the non-electric share, within the limits of physics and social and (geo)political constraints.
The meeting will be moderated by Nathalie Croisé, who has specialized in business and sustainable development issues for the past fifteen years. She has hosted and produced the Green Business program on BFM Business. Now independent, she moderates conferences and produces podcasts for several media, Carbone Zéro la radio, Green Univers and The Good.
The lectures, which are aimed at the general public, will reflect the variety of disciplines present at the Collège de France : history, economics, sociology, literature, as well as biology, chemistry, mathematics and the evolutionary sciences will all be involved.
With this new event, the libraries of the City of Paris are fulfilling their mission to disseminate knowledge and combat misinformation by offering the public opportunities to decode and explore certain areas of knowledge in greater depth. The aim is also to open a window onto the world of research and how it works, and to bring Parisians closer to an exceptional institution, the Collège de France, which has been at the heart of the city's intellectual and scientific life for five centuries.
