The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the CSH Workshop on:

Energy and Inequality

Speaker: Lucas Chancel (Sciences Po – Center for Research on Social Inequalities)

on

IFI-CSH conference room (ground floor)
2 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi – 110011

To register: Please fill out the registration FORM

We request you to pre-register before Tuesday, 16 December, 2:00 p.m. IST for in-person registration.

To attend at the venue: Please note the room capacity is limited. Seats will be reserved on a first come first basis. Kindly carry an ID proof to be granted access to the venue.

About the Talk:

Who owns power—and how has that shaped our societies ? This talk, based on Énergie et inégalités (“Energy and inequalities”, Seuil, 2025), shows that energy systems are political-economic arrangements that organize who captures rents, who bears risks, and who benefits from essential energy services. By comparing ownership shifts across Europe, North America, China and India —from private oligopolies to municipal, cooperative, colonial, and nationalized regimes—we document how institutional control over energy has structured inequality and conditioned countries’ capacity to invest, plan, and decarbonize. Taken together, these findings show that ownership will be central to any effort to decarbonize while containing wealth and power inequalities.