The ANTICIP project will analyse the way stakeholders imagine future uses of the subsurface and the role it plays in the projections of regional and local authorities in their respective documents. It will develop different scenarios with local stakeholders concerning possible future uses of the subsurface and will study how the future is constructed by scientific communities and other groups in society, notably through ethnographic studies.
The DyMod project will develop dynamic models concerning future supply and demand for subsurface resources, in terms of France's requirements up to 2050, according to different national development scenarios. It will seek to achieve the following objectives: establish how national scenarios will be implemented at regional level in terms of potential resources and infrastructures; integrate the environmental impacts of the scenarios and their knock-on effects, taking into account certain socio-economic indicators; simulate disruptive technological and social developments or crises and make the models accessible to non-specialists.
The TAEF project will focus on the data needed to develop dynamic scenarios and models. It will cover all aspects of the extraction, processing and consumption of mineral resources in order to feed data into the DyMod project. It will seek to achieve the following objectives: define reference values to quantify the level at which the exploitation of the subsurface remains sustainable; establish pricing frameworks, taking into account by-products and uncertainty; understand our needs in terms of metals over time within the context of the energy transition and provide public policy recommendations.
