A political history of CO2" conference

March 23, 2017 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
By Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (co-author of L'Évènement Anthropocène published by Seuil - 2016)
Campus Triolet, amphi Dumontet, building 7.
"If everyone has in mind the increasing curve of CO₂ for two centuries, we have curiously no history of it. What are the major historical processes that need to be linked to this curve? What are the institutions, powers, imaginations and interests that have really set us on the path to the climate abyss? This conference aims to give CO₂ a history and therefore a policy."
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian and researcher at the CNRS (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France). He is the author of several books, including: l'Apocalypse joyeuse, une histoire du risque technologique, Paris, Le Seuil, 2012 and l'Évènement Anthropocène, Paris, Le Seuil, 2016 (with C. Bonneuil).
 This conference is organized by Geosciences Montpellierthe Montpellier Faculty of Science, the GAIA doctoral school and Campus France.