Scholars
Christophe Bonneuil
Cnrs & Ehess
Based in
France
Europe
Christophe Bonneuil is a Senior researcher in history of science, science studies and environmental history at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris). He has sketched a global environmental history of the Anthropocene (The shock of the Anthropocene. The Earth, history and us, Verso, 2016, with J-B. Fressoz; The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis : Rethinking Modernity in a new Epoch, Routledge, 2015, with C. Hamilton and F. Gemenne). His article “Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1968-2021” (2021 in Global Environmental Change with B. Franta & P.-L. Choquet) offered one of the first longitudinal studies of a major fossil fuel company’s responses to global warming to the present. His ongoing research investigates climate knowledge, climate debates and climate obstruction from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Focus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics History Scientific assessmentsPublications
Books
Hamilton, Clive, Christophe Bonneuil and François Gemenne. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch. Routledge, 2015. Bonneuil, Christophe, and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. The shock of the Anthropocene: The earth, history and us. Verso Books, 2016.
Articles
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, Christophe Bonneuiln & Thomas David, “A respectable climate obstruction. The role of the International Chamber of Commerce in international climate governance from Stockholm (1972) to Rio (1992)”, submitted.
Jouty, Fabienne and Christophe Bonneuil, “Undermining Climate Action: The Fight by European Oil Companies against the European Carbon Tax”, submitted.
Bonneuil, Christophe, “Défendre la souveraineté industrielle de la France face à la montée de l’atmosphère comme commun environnemental mondial 1968-1972”, in C. Druelle-Korn et al. (eds), Industrie, développement et souveraineté, XVIIe-XXIe siècle, Paris, Ed. IGPDE-Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2025, 191-207.
Bonneuil Christophe, “Genèse et abandon d’une politique climatique : France, 1988-1992[Rise and fall of a French climate policy, 1988-1992]”, 20&21. Revue d’histoire, n°159, 2024, 79-95.
Merrer B., Dedieu F., Pessis, C. & Bonneuil C., “Safer than in the USA? The reception of Silent spring in France and the difficulties in achieving European regulations on pesticides, 1962-1976”, Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History, 17.2 (2024): 348-377
Bonneuil Christophe, Pierre-Louis Choquet and Ben Franta, “Early warnings and emerging environmental accountability: Total’s responses to global warming”, Global Environmental Change, vol. 71, nov. 2021: 102386.
Bonneuil, Christophe, “Le pétrole vert. Les promesses des biotechnologies face à la crise énergétique (France, 1973-1984)”, in F. Jarrige et A. Vrignon (eds.), Face à la puissance. Une histoire des énergies alternatives et renouvelables à l’âge industriel. Paris: La Découverte, 2020: 313-327.
Bonneuil, Christophe. “The geological turn: narratives of the Anthropocene”, in C. Hamilton, C. Bonneuil and F. Gemenne (eds), The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch. Routledge, 2015, 17-31.