The Shift Project’s ten collaborators are of diverse backgroups, and are managed by the Executive Director Matthieu Auzanneau. The think tank operates under the supervision of the Internal Committee and its President Jean-Marc Jancovici. Project Managers lead the working groups, and The Shift Project is actively supported by volunteers organized within an independent association, The Shifters.

The Shift Project is a French think tank advocating the shift to a post-carbon economy. As a non-profit organisation committed to serving the general interest through scientific objectivity, they are dedicated to informing and influencing the debate on energy transition in Europe.

• A single goal: to make the required shift to a carbon free economy to ensure stability, and therefore prosperity.
• A single belief: in a democracy, no great ambition can be realised if the entire economy militates against it. Therefore, to make any change desirable for the community as a whole, it is essential to convince a proportion of influential economic actors that the desired change will be in their interest over the medium term. The Shift Project’s aim is to bring these actors together.
• A primary target group: the decision-makers of the global economy.
• A starting point: documented observations and reports prepared on the basis of the very latest scientific knowledge in conjunction with experts in the field.
• Added value: realistic and ambitious proposals to trigger the shift to a carbon free economy.
• A distinctive profile: a management team from the business world, with substantial experience in the non-profit sector.

How does The Shift Project operate?

The Shift Project (TSP) is a European think tank. Its mission is to act as a proactive source of proposals which focus primarily on the resources required to make the shift to an economy free of dependency on fossil fuels (and therefore of greenhouse gas emissions). Operating at the point where the academic world meets the corporate world, society and government institutions, their think tank is committed to bringing forward operational measures that seek to answer not only the question of ‘why?’, but also the question of ‘how?’.

The Shift Project has set itself the mission of guiding the decision-making processes of companies and public institutions by formulating and presenting innovative and appropriate proposals built on scientific fact.