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Jean-Marc Jancovici
Jean-Marc Jancovici (born 1962) is a French engineering consultant, energy and climate expert, professor, conference speaker, writer, and independent columnist. He is co-founder and associate at the Carbone 4 consultancy firm, and the founding president of the think-tank The Shift Project. Biography He graduated from the École polytechnique in 1984 and from the Télécom ParisTech, Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Paris in 1986. He is the author and the main developer of the main French carbon accounting method, the ''Bilan Carbone'' assessment tool for the French Inter-ministerial Greenhouse Gas Mission. He collaborated with Nicolas Hulot for 11 years, and co-authored the '':fr:Pacte écologique, Pacte écologique'', a book that directly led to the ''Grenelle Environnement'' during the first years of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency. He is a member of the SOeS Scientific Committee (MEEDDEM observation and statistics department) and a member of the Fondati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French People
The French people (french: Français) are an ethnic group and nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France. The French people, especially the native speakers of langues d'oïl from northern and central France, are primarily the descendants of Gauls (including the Belgae) and Romans (or Gallo-Romans, western European Celtic and Italic peoples), as well as Germanic peoples such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Burgundians who settled in Gaul from east of the Rhine after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as various later waves of lower-level irregular migration that have continued to the present day. The Norse also settled in Normandy in the 10th century and contributed significantly to the ancestry of the Normans. Furthermore, regional ethnic minorities also exist within France that have distinct lineages, languages and cultures such as Bretons in Brittany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
