Our Proposals

All countries are already suffering and will suffer further from climate change, with significant economic consequences. The losses inflicted on the natural systems that support regional and national economies are already visible and measurable and are accelerating. For all countries, this is a powerful reason to act.

The group’s previous work analysed the contradiction between climate and social issues (see the 2021 report on the Comité Médicis website): on the one hand, the climate, the current energy mix and its evolution, on the other hand the social dimension, in the sense of curbing inequality, fostering inclusion and addressing the content of development.

Too often, when reflecting on the energy transition, the social dimension has been left aside. Taking this dimension into account leads to a change in perspective and to considering the energy transition as an industrial transformation. This leads to new proposals: systematically performing a dual employment-carbon assessment, developing transition industries in France, implementing a redistributive policy, investing more in Africa and in developing countries. Two shifts in the way of considering the energy transition thus appear to be decisive: to act on the supply side as a priority without making consumers feel guilty; to take into account the needs of developing countries and admit that this is where a large part of the climate challenge is played out.

Read the report “Responsible Capitalism: An Opportunity for Europe” recently published by the Institut Montaigne and the Comité Médicis. Written under the direction of Jean-Dominique Senard, Chairman of the Renault Group and Vice-Chairman of the Institut Montaigne, and Yves Perrier, CEO of Amundi and Chairman of the Comité Médicis, this report calls on Europe to become the continent of responsible capitalism. Responsible capitalism must ensure the prosperity of our continent and the independence of European nations and companies.