Jean-Marc Jancovici

Jean-Marc Jancovici is an engineer polytechnician French, specialist in climate, and consulting near various public agencies or private. It is known for its work of popularization and sensitizing on the Climate change, the Greenhouse effect and the energy Crise.

Biography

After studies with the Polytechnic school it becomes consulting and collaborates since 2001 with ADEME for the settling of the Bilan carbon. It also has an activity of lecturer and publishes articles or works. It is invited regularly to the radio or on television to speak about the environmental questions.

Jean-Marc Jancovici opened the Web site Manicore which popularizes certain energy questions and presents the opinions of its author on the energy policy. It developed the concept of “slave equivalent” by evaluating the number of “slaves” to which one kilowatt corresponds (this concept was already evoked in the texts of Ivan Illich).

Jean-Marc Jancovici considers that nuclear energy belonged to the eligible solutions to do without fossil energies, which is worth obviously criticisms to him of the Antinucléaire S. Its conclusions on the limits of the contribution that renewable energies can bring in the near future to the energy supply also give birth to from the controversies.

Jean-Marc Jancovici animates the work group on the environment of the former students of the Polytechnic school, “X-Environment”. Since 1994, this group feeds each year a whole number of monthly magazine of the former students of the Polytechnic school, the Yellow and the Red , on a topic of the environment.

In 2007, it takes part as a anybody moral associated with group 1 with the Grenelle with the environment: “To fight against the climate changes and to control energy”.

Biographical elements

Born in 1962, Graduate promotion X 1981.
of the Polytechnic school (1984)
Graduate of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of Telecommunications of Paris (1986).

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