1. Jean-Marc Jancovici was born on 1962 and is a French engineering consultant, energy and climate expert, professor, conference speaker, writer, and independent columnist.
15 Facts About Jean-Marc Jancovici
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Jean-Marc Jancovici is co-founder and associate at the Carbone 4 consultancy firm, and the founding president of the think-tank The Shift Project.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici graduated from the Ecole polytechnique in 1984 and from the Ecole nationale superieure des telecommunications de Paris in 1986.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici is the author and the main developer of the main French carbon accounting method, the Bilan Carbone assessment tool for the French Inter-ministerial Greenhouse Gas Mission.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici collaborated with Nicolas Hulot for 11 years, and co-authored the Pacte ecologique, a book that directly led to the Grenelle Environnement during the first years of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici is a member of the SOeS Scientific Committee and a member of the Fondation Nicolas-Hulot Strategic Committee.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici is the founding president of The Shift Project, a corporate sponsored think tank established in 2010, which advocates a progressive phase out of fossil fuels from our economy.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici founded two other organisations focused on spreading scientific knowledge about energy and climate change, and is currently chairing the environment section of his alumni, X Environnement.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici teaches at Mines ParisTech to first year students on energy and climate change basics.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici is a member of the association ASPO France, which studies the oil peak and its consequences.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici eats little meat, uses public transport, has no cellphone and avoids air travel whenever possible.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici is the author of eight books and has written for a number of French media.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici believes the climate urgency requires closing all coal power plants worldwide within 30 years.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici argues that non-nuclear renewable energies will never be sufficient to transition to a carbon-neutral economy.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici's positions have been criticized as being overly pro-nuclear, minimizing the dangers of nuclear energy and minimizing the interest of renewable energy.