Newsletter April-May-June 2023
Contents this quarter :
"Seven years after its creation, the Governance and Regulation Chair is continuing to develop and circulate knowledge on the governance of industries and markets, thereby contributing to the underlying public policy debates". - Eric Brousseau
Click here for the Governance and Regulation Chair's 2022 activity report. (French)
The European Union's sustainable finance strategy is based on an evolving, non-binding classification of sustainable economic activities, known as the European Green Taxonomy. The aim of this classification is, on the one hand, to direct investments towards activities that are qualified as sustainable and, on the other hand, to prevent the promotion of investments in activities whose environmental characteristics are not truly sustainable (greenwashing).
GovReg Briefs summarise for a non-academic audience the research carried out within the framework of the Chair and published in the form of a scientific article, book or thesis.
Research summarised in this GovReg Brief:
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France produces more than 900,000 tonnes of hydrogen every year, covering the needs of various industries. However, 94% of this hydrogen comes from fossil fuels. In the context of the energy transition, the question of decarbonisation arises. Green or low-carbon hydrogen can be produced from renewable energy sources using an electrolysis process. This technology also means that hydrogen can be used on a massive scale as an energy carrier, especially as it burns cleanly. It is also a solution for storing surplus renewable electricity using the "Power to gas" process.
Carried along by the wave of the sharing economy, car-sharing has become a fast-growing sector in recent years, offering the potential to meet many of the environmental and societal challenges associated with everyday mobility. The difficulty in democratising car-sharing remains in mobilising drivers and passengers to use it. Understanding users' motivations and barriers is vital to the development of this sector. We have conducted a field experiment with a French car-sharing start-up to understand drivers' motivations.