History and Climate

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a French historian of science, technology, and the environment. His work focuses on environmental history, the Anthropocene, the history of climate knowledge, and the history of energy transitions and modern ecological disinhibition.

He began his academic journey in a preparatory class in humanities and social sciences (B/L track) before joining the École normale supérieure de Cachan (now ENS Paris-Saclay). He earned his PhD in history from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and the European University Institute in Florence, under the supervision of Dominique Pestre.

Fressoz has served as a lecturer at Imperial College London and is currently a professor at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, a research fellow at the CNRS, and a full member of the Centre de recherches historiques at EHESS. He also writes a monthly column for Le Monde.

His publications have received wide recognition. His book Sans transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l’énergie won several prestigious awards, including the French Senate History Book Prize, the Nouvel Observateur Prize, the Foundation for Political Ecology Prize, and the Turgot Jury Prize.
His latest book, More and more and more. An All-Consuming History of Energy, was selected as a “Best Science Book of 2024” by The Economist and the Financial Times. He was also awarded the 2020 Biella Prize (Italy) for La terra, la storia e noi. L’evento Antropocene (Treccani, 2019; original title: The Anthropocene: An Event in Earth's and Human History).

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