Alain Grandjean

Alain Grandjean (born 1955) is a French economist, climatologist, and businessman. Alongside Jean-Marc Jancovici, he co-founded Carbone 4. Grandjean is a member of the High Council on Climate, and the president of the since 2019.

Biography Grandjean graduated from École polytechnique – X in 1975 – and from ENSAE (National school for statistics and economical administration) in 1980. He holds a PhD in environmental economy (1983).

Institutional works Alain Grandjean has been a member of the Ecological committee and the Strategy committee of Fondation Nicolas-Hulot pour la nature et l'homme since 2005. He is one of the authors of the "Carbon Tax" chapter of the of Nicolas Hulot. He is also a member of the panel of experts in "The Shift Project" think tank, and a member of the – advising the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Sustainable Development and Energy.

He joined the first Quinet committee of the Centre d'Analyse Stratégique, on the setting up of a carbon benchmark value. He represented the Fondation Hulot at the 1st workshop (Energy-climate) of the "Grenelle de l'environnement", the Rocard committee on the "" (also known as "carbon tax") as well as the Juppé/Rocard committee on .

He co-chairs with Pascal Canfin the "Mobilizing fundings for climate" mission instigated by French President François Hollande prior to the COP 21. He also co-chairs with Pascal Canfin and Gérard Mestrallet, the "mission on European-level carbon pricing" requested by Segolène Royal – then French minister for the Environment and President of the COP21.

He takes part to the second Quinet committee for France Strategy on a carbon benchmark value. He then takes part the AcTE committee (on accelerating the ecological transition) within the French Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, founded by Nicolas Hulot, with Jean-Dominique Senard as chairman.

Works

La monnaie dévoilée, with Gabriel Galand, Éditions L'Harmattan, 1996 . Environnement et Entreprises, with Dominique Bourg and Thierry Libaert, Village Mondial, 2006. Le plein s'il vous plaît !, with Jean-Marc Jancovici, Éditions du Seuil, February 2006 , reissued. 2010. C'est maintenant ! 3 ans pour sauver le monde, with Jean-Marc Jancovici, Éditions du Seuil, January 2009 . Les états et le carbone, with Patrick Criqui et Benoît Faraco, PUF, 2009. Vers une société sobre et désirable, with the fondation Nicolas Hulot, PUF, 2010. Miser (vraiment) sur la transition écologique, with Hélène Le Teno, with a foreword from Nicolas Hulot, Les Éditions de l'Atelier, mars 2014 . Financer la transition énergétique : carbone, climat et argent, with Mireille Martini, foreword from Nicolas Hulot, Éditions de l'Atelier, août 2016 . Agir sans attendre. Notre plan pour le climat, préface de Nicolas Hulot, , 2019 L'illusion de la finance verte, with Julien Lefournier, foreword from Gaël Giraud, Éditions de l'Atelier, Mai 2021,

Awards

Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur He is appointed to Knight of the Légion d'honneur on December 31, 2013.