Friday Lecture Meetings

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 […]

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 […]

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.

On a longtemps vendu à l'opinion publique l'illusion aujourd'hui hautement inflammable d'une transition écologique merveilleuse, qui créerait emplois et richesses pour tous, tout en redonnant à la nature son lustre d'antan.

Speaker Edwin Zaccai Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development Studies (CESD)   Title   Book: Two Degrees - Societies Facing Climate […]

Elisabetta Cornago, environmental economist at the OECD Environment Directorate and a PhD candidate at ECARES, a research center at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.