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Low-carbon Technologies Value Chains

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Low-carbon technologies and the transformation of industries pose key challenges in terms of innovation, competitiveness and value chain management. Industrial policies are now central.

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Reindustrializing France: Challenges of the Digital and Environmental Transformation

Date de publication
14 September 2022
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To succeed in the challenge of reindustrializing France, French and European companies must undertake a dual process of digital and environmental transformation, in a context of international competition.

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Sino-American Climate Diplomacy

Date de publication
17 March 2022
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During COP26, Beijing and the Biden administration committed to reviving Sino-American cooperation on climate issues, in the name of their common interest in climate stability. 

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What Progress on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change?

Date de publication
17 March 2022
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At COP26, a long-term target to keep global warming below 1.5°C was set. This goal is inconsistent with the commitments that the signatory countries have made in terms of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Europe/United States: 50 Shades of Dependence

Date de publication
07 September 2021
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Is Joe Biden’s United States (US) returning to multilateral, traditional diplomacy? This more open stance does not eliminate either its domestic problems or the divergence in interests separating the US from the Europeans: how will open diplomacy fit in with the priority of defending US interests? Will Washington organize a broad anti-Chinese coalition that the Europeans are opposed to? Will sanctions with their resulting effects remain at the heart of US strategy? Will the Europeans be able to assert their sovereignty in the key area of new technologies against the US giants?

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Baden-Württemberg under Green Leadership – Balance Sheet of Two Government Periods under Winfried Kretschmann

Date de publication
10 March 2021
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Baden-Württemberg's economic and social structure offered good starting conditions for center-right parties from the beginning, which the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) initially knew how to use for itself. From 1953 to 2011 the Prime Minister belonged to the CDU. In 2011 the Greens and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) won an election over the CDU for the first time. Winfried Kretschmann was elected the first Green Prime Minister in a German state.

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The German Green Party, a new People's Party?

Date de publication
12 January 2021
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In the context of increasing awareness of the climate crisis, environmental parties across the EU obtained high scores in the European elections of May 2019, reaching 20% in Germany, 17% in Ireland, 16% in Finland and 13 % in France. Meanwhile, far-right parties gained strength.

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Les bases de la puissance. Enjeux géopolitiques et stratégiques des bases militaires avancées

Date de publication
28 May 2020
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Throughout history, great powers have relied upon forward military bases, either to support their interventions in areas of interest, to re-assure allies or to control a territory.

Ballistic Missile Defense in Japan: Deterrence and Military Transformation

Date de publication
18 December 2012
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In December 2003, Japan decided to be the second country in the Asia-Pacific to deploy a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system.

Unconventional Gas: A Game Changer for Transport Too?

Date de publication
12 July 2011
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A new technology trend, the development of natural gas vehicles, is emerging in the transport sector. 

What's in a Name? Market-based Instruments for Biodiversity

Date de publication
31 May 2011
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The use of Market-based Instruments (MBIs) for the management of biodiversity and ecosystem services - carbon trading schemes, payment for ecosystem services, mitigation banking, etc. - is currently booming. But the definition and underpinning theory of these tools remain unsettled. It is therefore necessary to advance in the definition, theory and consistent classification of these instruments.

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