Resolving the paradoxes of the energy transition

Terra Nova, a French NGO, analyses the paradoxes that the energy transition is facing in various European countries: short-term choices in the face of long-term challenges; the democratic paradox (many citizen expectations, but little involvement); the mobility paradox (first challenge of the transition, conspicuously absent from the debates); the financing paradox (investing massively in job-generating and capital-creating projects in France could make it possible to tackle the economic and energy crises simultaneously). Recommendations are proposed