Participants

16 November 2023

10:25 – 11:10

Amphithéâtre Painlevé

 

Emmanuel Hache

Emmanuel Hache is an economist and futurist at IFP énergies nouvelles and Director of Research at IRIS. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris I and is qualified to direct research at the University of Paris-Nanterre. He also holds a degree in Geopolitics and Foresight from the Institut de Relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS). He works on energy foresight and natural resource issues for the ecological transition at IFP énergies nouvelles. He teaches foresight, economics and geopolitics of natural resources at a number of institutions. He is also a research associate at Economix (EconomiX-CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre). He is the author of Géopolitique des énergies (Editions Eyrolles, September 2022) and Métaux, le nouvel or noir (Editions du Rocher, September 2023), as well as over sixty articles in French and international academic journals.

Conference: From a geopolitics of energy to a geopolitics of metals?

Decarbonizing the global energy mix has become a priority to meet international climate objectives, and a major increase in investment in low-carbon technologies has been observed since 2010. By 2022, more than $1,100 billion will have been invested in all low-carbon technologies (electricity generation, hydrogen, storage, CO2 capture and storage and electrified vehicles), a figure greater than investment in the hydrocarbon exploration and production sector. While this dynamic has enabled partial emancipation from the economic and geopolitical challenges of national energy security, it is not without new dependencies, and could make geopolitical issues even more complex. Indeed, the energy transition is contaminating the global dynamics of raw materials markets, with the foreseeable acceleration in demand for certain materials such as cobalt, lithium, rare earths and copper, which are necessary for low-carbon technologies. In this context, alongside energy, the geopolitics of the 21st century will be driven by competition between the major international powers for access to and control of the metals value chain.