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From inadvertent to reluctant pioneer? Climate strategies and policy style in France

To comply with the Kyoto Protocol, signatory nations have implemented a policy template of reducing greenhouse gas emissions mainly from the electricity generation and heavy industry sectors. This article shows how, in the case of France, a policy style based on `environmental meso-corporatism' has largely exhausted this `standard recipe'. To consider how far France has developed fresh solutions, two phases of climate policy-making in the 2000s are analysed. Increased recourse to new environmental policy instruments is identified, but implemented through the institutional routines of `environmental meso-corporatism'. The article argues that although this policy style has proved relatively well adapted to regulating the technologies of production, it has little purchase on cultures of consumption within the residential and transport sectors. Faced with new challenges, policymakers have proved better equipped to reform policy content than policy style. But France shows some reluctance to resolve the problem of limited policy reach

The power of science: economic research and European decision-making : the case of energy and environment policies

This book highlights the interaction between science and politics and between research in economics and European Union policy-making. It focuses on the use of Quantitative tools, Top-down and Bottom-up models in up-stream European decision-making process through five EU policy case studies: energy taxation, climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and internalisation of external costs

Euratom : la recherche nucléaire en Europe

Si les États membres de l’Union européenne ne parlent pas d’une seule voie en matière de nucléaire, le traité Euratom qui les rassemble tous ainsi que la Suisse en tant qu’État associé est toujours très actif. Soutenant la recherche et l’innovation en matière de fission et de fusion, Euratom vise aussi à soutenir l’éducation ou la recherche médicale. L’enjeu ? Maintenir un leadership technologique mondial