Friday Lecture Meetings

Pierre-Alain Jayet (INRA) presents «Revising the hierarchy of geographical impacts in response to climate change and water prices: a prospective approach to French agriculture» 

Speaker   Fabien Roques, Associate Professor at Paris-Dauphine University   Title   A Climate and socio-economic study of a multi-member state carbon price floor to the power sector   Abstract   Our study shows the limitations of the recent ETS reform and the potential benefits from a Carbon Price Floor (CPF).   Objectives:  -Identify potential […]

Alexis Tantet, Postdoctoral fellow at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory of the Polytechnic School
We develop a renewable energy mix optimization program. The main novelty is to take into account and evaluate the impact of climate variability, from multi-decadal to hourly time scales, on the mix.

Greenhouse gases, energy production (fossil, renewable, nuclear), transformation, transportation or storage: the challenges of global energy transitions are many and varied. So much so that policy makers, economists or business leaders often tend to consider them individually.

This paper studies the foresters’ risk and uncertainty preferences as a potential driver for adaptation decisions towards climate change.

Speaker Madeline Werthschult, MSC Research Assistant at the Chair of Microeconomics (WWU Munster) with a Focus on Energy and Resource Economics. Article Cost Misperceptions and Energy Consumption. Authors: Madeline Werthschulte and Andreas Löschel   Abstract The aim of this study is to analyse the extent to which energy cost misperceptions can predict households' energy consumption. […]

Speaker Laurence Scialom, University Professor at Paris Ouest Nanterre. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French Prudential Supervisory and Resolution Authority (ACPR) and the Investor Advisory Committee of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).  Title La fascination de l'ogre - ou comment desserrer l'étau de la finance Abstract Finance today operates in a […]

In the United States, climate change policy may be shaped not only by the Congress and by executive agencies such as US EPA, but also by judicial decisions.

Faced with the widespread use of dismantling sites in Asia, whose processes present alarming health and environmental issues, the European Commission has raised the question of implementing a financial mechanism to encourage shipowners to use higher standards for ship recycling.