Thomas PELLERIN-CARLIN
Director European programmeThomas Pellerin-Carlin joins the Institute for climate economics I4CE in 2022, where he leads the Institute’s EU programme.
He also teaches at Sciences Po in Paris and at the College of Europe Energy Union Training Programme in Bruges.
Before joining I4CE, Thomas worked at the Jacques Delors Institute. He started in 2015 as an EU energy policy research fellow before founding and directing the Jacques Delors Energy Centre (2018-2022). He also worked for the College of Europe, (Belgium, 2013-2015) as Academic Assistant and Research Assistant of its European Energy Policy Chair. Previously he worked for the French Administration (General Secretariat for European Affairs, 2012) and the French Army and its Defence Staff.
Thomas studied political science and holds a MA from the College of Europe’s Master in European Political and Administrative Studies, Bruges (2012-2013, Václav Havel Promotion) and an MA from Sciences-Po Lille (2007-2012, Promotion George Orwell).
Thomas speaks French, English and Italian.
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10/02/2023
Foreword of the week
How the EU can match the US Inflation Reduction-Act
Last August, the US Congress adopted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It became the epicentre of EU fears of seeing cleantech projects, like battery or solar panel gigafactories, settling in the US rather than in the EU. There is some rationality behind that fear. The IRA indeed provides sizable public funding, with 10 years predictability and the simplicity of having a single federal level scheme. Moreover, the IRA does not only subsidize cleantech manufacturing. For instance, in the case of electric vehicles, the IRA supports the mining of critical minerals, the manufacturing of the battery, the purchase of the electric car and the production of renewable electricity. In other words, with IRA the US now has a genuine long-term climate investment plan. -
09/02/2023
Climate Brief
Think house, not brick: building an EU Cleantech Investment Plan to match the US Inflation Reduction Act
For years, the European Union assumed it would lead the cleantech race because it was the only one running in it. Mistakenly so. With the Inflation Reduction Act, the US quickly catches up. This brief argues that the best EU policy answer to the IRA is an EU long‑term climate investment plan. As the political appetite for such a plan is currently limited, the European Commission should use the political momentum to propose a targeted investment plan that focuses on the development, scale-up, manufacturing and deployment of clean technologies in the EU. It identifies three first bricks that can already be laid out to build this plan.