The inequalities in greenhouse gas emissions and the disproportionate contribution of a small group of 'large emitters' is an emerging area of research (Mattioli et al., 2023). Indeed, targeting the energy practices of the rich are central in order to reach emissions targets, due to both their climate impacts and the social aspirations they help to maintain. Yet the wealthy are a social group whose consumption practices - and energy consumption in particular - are little known (Observatoire des inégalités, 2022), and remain largely unaddressed by climate policies. Aside from studies focusing on the richest 1%, which do not capture the diversity of wealth, attention to domestic energy practices has focused mostly on vulnerable groups. The ENER-RICHES project is part of this emerging subject by approaching consumption through the prism of social class, to articulate the structure of energy consumption among the rich with the politicization of these consumption habits. To do this, it draws on the two fields of political ecology and the theory of practices. This research programme implemented with three hypotheses. It postulates that the social stratification of consumption is reflected in specific forms of energy consumption by wealthy households, and aims to objectify it with a survey. The second hypothesis is that wealthy households can yield significant political leverage, which is a factor of the invisibility of their energy consumption in climate policies. This is empirically addressed by studying the trajectory of the recommendation of the 2020 Citizens' Climate Convention. Finally, it explores the evolution of the window of acceptability in the public opinion when it comes to controlling the energy consumption of the wealthy, and aims to do so through an analysis of social networks.

The REASONS Chair (Renewable Energy Age : SOcial NoticeS) proposes a comparative analysis of the debate about energy transition technologies ( broadly defined as the technical devices that enable the implementation of an energy transition). The Chair is based on the assumption that the debates are mainly rooted in the lack of common rules to support the transitions; through the analysis of these debates, the Chair intends to identify and understand the implied norms that the debates enable to be implemented. That will be achieved by combining four tasks, plus a governance task. The first task will focus on the way social organizations have positioned themselves in relation to transition technologies, in particular by studying in-depth two dimensions of these debates ( each dimension being the subject of a PhD thesis): the manner in which they attack companies who make false promises, thus renewing accusations of greenwashing; the manner in which these debates are structured, particularly in social networks. These studies, together with literature reviews on social opposition to transitions, will provide inputs for the eight case studies of transition technologies that constitute the second task. Each study will last for nine months and will be realized by two post-doctoral fellows able to implement interdisciplinary approaches. These analyses, which will complement those already carried out, will allow a comparison of the debates around energy transitions to be drawn up in a third task, a table that will enable the Chair's scientific (analysis of the rules of civic epistemology that are being developed) and operational (recommendations to the Company for the deployment of its technologies) objectives to be achieved. The final task will be dedicated to communication and dissemination, which involves, in addition to academic communications, communications on publication media at the meeting of the press and academic publication and the creation of a strip cartoon on renewable energy deployment. This chair is based on a long-standing collaboration between the Transitions énergétiques et environnementales laboratory (TREE, CNRS / U. Pau) and TotalÉnergies' R&D unit, a collaboration that will be expanded and amplified by this Chair. TotalÉnergie wants to better understand the rules of the game of renewable energy deployment in order to participate in the public debate and to adapt its proposals to the expectations of the public. For their part, the University of Pau has specialized in energy and environmental transitions, and the UMR TREE is the social science laboratory in charge of analyzing these transitions. The partnership has already made it possible to carry out studies of transition technologies, which will serve as a basis for the studies envisaged in the Chair in three ways: - in terms of governance, by involving not only the university team and the company's R&D team, but also a team from one of the company's operational entities in the deployment phase of a technology and a team from the company's strategic services (stakeholder engagement department); in terms of approach, to repeat (and adapt) a methodology for analyzing technologies that has already been tried and tested and consists of a combination of methods from different disciplinary fields; and, finally, in terms of accumulated knowledge, to contribute case studies that will serve to compose the common base. The partnership's objective is, on the one hand, to produce knowledge about the debates surrounding the transitions that are taking place, and in particular the rules of civic epistemology that are being discussed; on the other hand, to provide guidance to the company in the deployment of its technologies, so that it can usefully participate in these debates.

ARTDECO gathers 4 research teams and one social enterprise around participatory research in the field of Sustainability Science, by looking more particularly at the processes involved in crafting sustainable materials. This project will establish a framework for implementing a low-tech citizen lab in a follow-up project. This lab, established in Alsace region, will gather local stakeholders and scientific partners, and will aim at transforming local residual organic resources (from the agriculture or food processing sectors) into materials and objects for local use. The main objective is to understand how a low-tech process, regarded as virtuous per se, can lead towards a sustainable transition of the usages and practices, at the territorial scale and with respect to the local context. In order to foster the emergence of this low-tech citizen lab, ARTDECO will rely upon three main phases : - The analysis of how rooted in the territory of interest technical solutions for transformation of organic waste and co-products into materials might be; - Lab trials for low-tech techniques adapted to the territory in cooperation with local stakeholders and know-how; - Formalizing a framework for the citizen lab, with recommendations for governance and knowledge management in contact with the territorial context and similar initiatives in other territories. The model eventually co-constructed could be replicated and applied to other territories and/or technical solutions for other sectors (food, energy, habitat, mobility, etc.)

This project analyses the demand for marital conflict resolution services in West Africa and the impact of state intervention on gender inequalities. Using the experiences of native courts and maisons de justice in Senegal, we examine the short and long-term effects of the expansion of public justice services on gender norms and the relationship of litigants with the state. We also propose different experiments to help identify approaches to extend public services for marital conflict resolution to populations in need.