Thinking legally: Energy, climate change and the law

This event is organised by Energy Futures Lab and The Grantham Institute. Attendees are requested to register in advance.

Abstract

We usually speak about economics, technologies, and political choices of governments when we discuss the possible new order on energy and climate change. It clearly makes sense. But because of the difficulty in finding universal instruments to achieve this seems necessary to see if legal considerations could be additionally welcome. Alain Bucaille will suggest concrete proposals that could be fruitful in this perspective.

Biography

Alain Bucaille is the Director of Research and Innovation for Areva. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and the Corps des Mines in France. Before joining AREVA he was Vice-President Research and Innovation, Lafarge Group then General Manager of Hermès the famous luxury good company, and President of the Luxury Goods Anticounterfeit Commission. He joined AREVA end of 2000, has prepared the French law voted in 2006 on Nuclear Wastes and was for long time Senior Vice-President of Research and Innovation for the AREVA group. He teachs energy and climate change at the French Business School HEC. He is also Visiting Professor at Imperial College. He was the author of a report published by Imperial College in 2010: “A global legal framework to meet the climate change challenge”, and strongly supported the IC report of 2013 (Halving CO2 by 2050).