Chaire Economie du Climat

Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Laura Foglia, November 19th 2021
2021-11-19 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Laura Foglia is a consultant in transition to low-carbon mobility and Mobility project director at The Shift Project think tank. Graduated in Political Economy (Bocconi Milan) and Management (HEC Paris), she specialized in Transport at ENPC in Paris. After working with international organizations, she was for 12 years consultant and director of transport planning projects at Systra (engineering subsidiary of RATP and SNCF), then head of mission at Ile-de France Mobilités, and responsible of the Transport and Mobility Studies division of the Artélia group. She regularly speaks as a lecturer in Masters and Continuing Education (ENPC, Ihédate, CNFPT, etc.), with State organizations (ADEME, France Mobilités, CEREMA, etc.) and local communities, and leads workshops on awareness-raising and support for change in the area of ​​the transition to low-carbon mobility.
Title
Decarbonize mobility in the territories
Abstract

This presentation is the result of a project carried out by Laura Foglia as part of the Think Tank The Shift Project, the “Guide to low-carbon everyday mobility”. The project, which took place over one year, consisted in exploring the most relevant actions and policies to decarbonize daily mobility in the territories, with a particular focus on medium density areas and on levers of action. actionable in the short term (a municipal mandate). It drew on a lot of experience feedback from the Mobility Organizing Authorities (AOM), town planning agencies, corporate mobility advisers and other interlocutors (transport operators, bicycle associations, etc.).
Practical informations:
Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place from 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm
The presentation will be in french.
You can attend it at the Palais Brongniart or via the Zoom tool.
To participate, we invite you to register here
1. If you have selected the “online” mode, the link will be sent to you once your registration completed.
2. If you wish to participate in our face-to-face event, here is our address: Palais Brongniart, 28 Place de la Bourse – 75 002 Paris FLM- Seminar Room – 4th floor
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CEC Annual Day, Climate : Researchers & Citizens, Thursday, October 21st
2021-10-21 08:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Paris) | Université Paris Dauphine
Thursday, October 21st from 10 am to 4.30 pm
CLIMATE : RESEARCHERS & CITIZENS
The CEC Annual Day will take place in hybrid format: face-to-face and YouTube Live.
Registration click here
Face-to-face Room A709 – Université Paris Dauphine – PSL. Within the limits of available places and subject to the presentation of a sanitary pass as well as an identity document or online with the YouTube link communicated once your complete registration.

Program :

10 – 10.45 am Session 1
Aliénor Cameron

The case for a Carbon Border Adjustment: where do economists stand?

Chairman : Jean-Philippe Nicolaï
Professor of Industrial Economics at Grenoble INP

10.45-11.30 am
Session 2
Maxime Ollier

Farm-level autonomous adaptation of European agriculture to climate change: a distributional analysis

Chairwoman: Raja Chakir
Research Director, INRAe AgroParisTech, Paris-Saclay University

11.30 – 11.45 am Coffee break Espace 7

11.45 am- 12.30 pm
Session 3
Théotime Coudray

Data science for low-carbon power systems : computational tools to measure renewables’ intermittency

Chairman : Cédric Clastres
Professor, Grenoble-Alpes University, GAEL

12.30-2.3o pm Lunch Espace 7

2.30 – 4.30 pm : Round table Climate: from Researchers to Citizens
moderated by journalist and lecturer Pierre Sedze
A last-minute guest to introduce the round table: the committed comedian Vérino. In his latest show Focus, he has a slightly offbeat but equally strong and inclusive message about the ecological transition.
With :

4.30 pm Closing cocktail reception Espace 7

Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Kelly Cobourn, October 15th 2021
2021-10-15 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker
Kelly Cobourn is Associate Professor of Natural Resource Economics (Virginia Tech).
Title
Forest transitions and ecosystem collapse: an analysis of the role of substitutability between primary and secondary forests.
Abstract

Across the developing world, the deforestation of primary, native forests supports economic activity at the cost of environmental degradation with global, long-term consequences. Events like record-setting wildfires in the Amazon highlight the potential for deforestation to drive ecosystems past potentially irreversible tipping points, such as a shift from tropical forest into grassy savanna. Investments in reforestation with secondary forests are one potential tool to avert or delay tipping points, but the success of this strategy depends on the degree to which secondary and primary forests are substitutes in the production of ecosystem services. We develop a dynamic optimization model and simulation to explore how deforestation, reforestation, and the degree of substitutability between forest types affects the likelihood that a forest system will cross a tipping point. We demonstrate that if the ecosystem services provided by secondary forests do not offset the losses from deforestation, collapse may occur despite ongoing investments in planting, especially if costs of securing land tenure are high. Conversely, our results suggest that secondary forest management practices and species selection that increase the substitutability of secondary for primary forests can play an important role in avoiding or slowing costly ecosystem change.
To learn more about Dr Kelly Cobourn it’s here
Useful information
Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place exceptionally from 12.00 pm – 1.30 pm
The presentation will be in english.
You can attend it at the Palais Brongniart or via the Zoom tool.
To participate, we invite you to register here
1. If you have selected the “online” mode, the link will be sent to you once your registration completed.
2. If you wish to participate in our face-to-face event, here is our address: Palais Brongniart, 28 Place de la Bourse – 75 002 Paris FLM- Seminar Room – 4th floor
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Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Nicolas Rochon, September 17th 2021
2021-09-17 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker
Nicolas Rochon is President and founder of RGREEN INVEST.
Title
In 2020, Nicolas Rochon is writing a book “My energy transition” dedicated to the historical partners he has been supporting for ten years. This collection of testimonies thus provides the opportunity to review the history of the development of renewable energies in France and to understand the underlying environmental issues through the eyes of an entrepreneur convinced that green finance has a decisive role to play. in order to combine economic growth and respect for the environment.
Background

Nicolas Rochon, founder and president of RGREEN INVEST, is one of the pioneers of green finance in France. Its independent management company, which recently became a mission enterprise, specializes in investing and financing infrastructure related to renewable energy production and adaptation to climate change. The latter manages a portfolio of assets of 1.3 billion euros and has contributed, through its tailor-made financing solutions, to the development of more than 500 projects in France and in Europe. By having participated in the installation of 2.6 GW of installed power while avoiding the emission of more than 550,000 tonnes of CO2, RGREEN INVEST is now a key player in the energy transition and adaptation to changes climatic.

Useful information
Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place from 12.30 pm – 2 pm
You can attend it at the Palais Brongniart or via the Zoom tool.
To participate, we invite you to register here
1. If you have selected the “online” mode, the link will be sent to you once your registration completed.
2. If you wish to participate in our face-to-face event, here is our address: Palais Brongniart, 28 Place de la Bourse – 75 002 Paris FLM- Seminar Room – 4th floor
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Webinar « Market and regulatory designs for energy storage », Wednesday, September 8th 2021
2021-09-08 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
Webinar in English.
Summary
Energy storage is a unique power-system asset, in that it can provide services that are functionally similar to those that are provided by generation, transmission, and distribution assets and act as a load. Most of our market designs and regulatory constructs assume that assets primarily fall into one of these categories. This talk will introduce the challenges that are raised by this dichotomy between the capabilities of energy storage and the regulatory and market treatment of power-system assets. It will discuss also the potential use of storage-capacity rights as a way of overcoming these challenges.
The presenter
Ramteen Sioshansi is a Professor in and Associate Department Chair of Department of Integrated Systems Engineering and an associate fellow in Center for Automotive Research at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the integration of advanced energy technologies, including renewables, energy storage, and electric transportation, into energy systems. He works also in energy policy and electricity market design, especially as they pertain to advanced energy technologies. He served three two-year terms on Electricity Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee to U.S. Secretary of Energy, and chaired its Energy Storage (Technologies) Subcommittee. He is an IEEE Fellow.
This event will take place at IFP School on September 8th at 5:00pm. It is organized under the auspices of the French Association for Energy Economics with the support of Electricity Economics and Digital Transition Chair (IFP School), the Climate Economics Chair (Paris-Dauphine University), Armand Peugeot Chair (CentraleSupelec, ESSEC, Université PSA) and Economics of Natural Gas Chair (Paris Dauphine-PSL University, IFP School, Mines Paris Tech-PSL University, Toulouse School of Economics).
The seminar will be broadcasted online – registration details are available here: link

Special Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Christian de Perthuis, July 2nd 2021
2021-07-02 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker
Christian de Perthuis, founder of the Climate Economics Chair & Author at De Boeck Superieur.
Title
15 years of the carbon market: six lessons to strengthen the system
Abstract

A few days before the presentation by the European Commission of its reform project (July 14), Christian de Perthuis invites you to come and discuss the proposals developed in the Policy Brief produced last April at the joint request of Confrontation Europe and ID4D ( AFD blog).

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Johanna Choumert-Nkolo, June 18th 2021
2021-06-18 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker
Johanna Choumert-Nkolo,Head of Research at EDI Global
Title
Internal Migration and Energy Poverty in South Africa
Authors: Johanna Choumert-Nkolo and Leonard Le Roux (Sciences Po & University of Cape Town)
Abstract

Despite recent progress, energy poverty remains pervasive in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This challenge is generally more severe in rural areas. However, rapid urbanization adds a significant challenge to often under-capacitated urban local authorities that struggle to provide services to new urban dwellers. In the case of South Africa and other SSA countries, this has resulted in a proliferation of under-serviced informal urban settlements on the urban periphery, where a lack of energy access is compounded by a lack of access to other services and job opportunities, resulting in sites of concentrated and multidimensional deprivation. This paper presents the first analysis of the relationship between rural-urban migration and energy poverty in South Africa, and to the authors’ knowledge in Africa, using a nationally representative panel dataset. Using a difference in differences approach, energy poverty changes for both migrants and non-migrants is tracked over a ten-year period. It is found that, on average, moving to urban areas results in reductions in energy poverty for migrants themselves, with especially dramatic reductions in the use of traditional cooking fuels. However, roughly one in five new urban arrivals moves into informal shack dwellings where the gains from migration are negligible from an energy poverty perspective, given the rapid increase in grid access and access to electrical appliances taking place in South African rural areas.

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

[🇫🇷] Quelles énergies pour demain? June 8th, 2021
2021-06-08 16:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Le cycle « Débats au cœur de la science », de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France dont la première saison est intitulée Demain, la vie ?, invite plusieurs scientifiques à apporter leur éclairage sur un thème qui agite la communauté scientifique ou, plus largement, la société. Cette séance se penche sur la question de savoir comment subvenir aux besoins énergétiques des prochaines générations. Elle est menée par Caroline Lachowski, journaliste à RFI.

Avec Marc Fontecave, membre de l’Académie des sciences, titulaire de la chaire de chimie des processus biologiques au Collège de France, Anna Creti, professeure d’économie à l’université Paris Dauphine, et Yves Marignac, porte-parole de l’Association negaWatt.

WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Guglielmo Zappalà, May 21th 2021
2021-05-21 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker
Guglielmo Zappalà, doctoral student at Paris School of Economics.
Title
Do subjective perceptions and accuracy shape adaptation to climate change? Evidence from Bangladesh

Extract
This paper examines how subjective perceptions of climate change of rural households in Bangladesh influence their irrigation adaptive decisions. Using a unique national-representative panel dataset of farmers in Bangladesh, I study the effect of subjective perceptions on the use of different types of irrigation in diverse growing seasons. I formalize a theoretical framework in which subjective perceptions depend on the reference environment agents are exposed to, and test the implications. I also define and empirically validate the hypothesis that farmers are subject to availability bias, finding that self-reported recent drought events lead to overreaction in the use of irrigation on the cultivable land, with the effect vanishing after one period. By comparing farmers’ recollection of self-reported drought events and objectively recorded events, I find that the accuracy of farmers explains differences in the irrigation adaptive decisions, with different reactions to under and overestimation of these events. A detailed comprehension of farmers’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies can significantly contribute to the design of adequate policies for agricultural security.

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Julien Wolfersberger, April 16th 2021
2021-04-16 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Weconférence
Speaker
Julien Wolfersberger, Paris-Saclay University, AgroParisTech-INRAE Economie Publique, CEC associate researcher.
Title
Roads Investment, Development and Deforestation

Extract
We build a quantitative spatial model to study the impact of investments in transportation infrastructure on forest losses in the Brazilian Amazon. We examine how new roads (or the modernization of existing ones) change the spatial equilibrium of agriculture, modify trade opportunities and cause deforestation. We quantify the model using a novel data-set combining agricultural census data and satellite-data on both forest cover and road networks. We find that a decrease in transport costs by 10% between the states of the so-called “arc of deforestation” and the closest international port increases deforestation by approximately 4% in this region. We highlight the general equilibrium effects related to this result and examine several important outcomes related to structural transformation.

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

Online Round Table, Green recovery and climate policy US vs EU, Thursday, April 15th 2021
2021-04-15 12:30 - 14:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | webconference
VIDEO GREEN RECOVERY AND CLIMATE POLICY US VS EU

The Climate Economics Chair is organizing a round table event GREEN RECOVERY AND CLIMATE POLICY US VS EU on Thursday, April 15th 2021

2.30 to 4.30 pm (UTC +2, Paris) time correspondence 8.30 to 10.30 am (US Eastern time)

Zoom link available after Registration

WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Jordi Planelles Cortes, March 19th 2021
2021-03-19 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Click on “Paramètres, sous-titres and Anglais”
Speaker
Jordi Planelles Cortes, doctoral student at the University of Paris Saclay, at the University of Barcelona and at the Energy and Prosperity Chair
Title
Carbon taxes in a global production network

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to understand better carbon taxation in the context of an increasingly integrated global production network. We present a model that characterizes how, departing from sector idiosyncratic policy shocks, the structure of the global production network is able to generate sizeable fluctuations on aggregate output and emissions. We depart from a stream of literature that uses network structures in the framework of general equilibrium models in order to characterize the microeconomic origins of aggregate fluctuations. We extend previous models in order to, among other features, include carbon taxation and accommodate the structure of an environmental multi-regional input-output database. We provide an empirical representation of the different network effects that play a role in spreading globally the effects of carbon taxation. We are able to identify a very small set of sectors that possesses most of the emissions reduction potential. Second-order policy effects define synergies between policies that call for greater harmonization in the application of carbon taxation around the world.

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Reza Lahidji, February 19th 2021
2021-02-19 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Reza Lahidji, Head of the Evaluation and Governance unit, KPMG Norway, and specialized in public policy evaluation. He is member of the Expert Committee of Economists at the National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management.
Title
Evaluating the management of radioactive waste – Methodological issues

Abstract

The nuclear activities of many countries have generated, for more than half a century, a considerable stockpile of radioactive waste, some with high activity and / or long-lived, which must be managed in a safer and more sustainable manner than this is not the case today. In addition, the civilian use of nuclear energy is set to continue for at least several decades and even represents, for some, an important element of strategies to combat global warming. The problem of nuclear waste management is therefore bound to endure on the one hand and, on the other hand, to interfere with debates on climate policy. In France, the legislator opted in 2006 for a geological disposal solution for high-level, long-lived radioactive waste, and entrusted this responsibility to the Agency for the management of radioactive waste (Andra). Andra has developed in stages a storage project called Cigeo and located near the town of Bure, on the border of the Meuse and Haute-Marne. This project should soon be the subject of a public utility declaration file, which includes a socio-economic assessment (SEA).
To advise it in the conduct of this evaluation, Andra set up a Committee of economist experts which has met regularly over the past two years, contributed to the development of a method and supervised the work of ‘ESE. In particular, the Committee had to respond to the considerable methodological challenges posed by the assessment of nuclear waste management solutions, particularly in taking into account the very long term and the representation of radical uncertainty for the public decision-maker. These methodological questions, familiar as they are to the climate economist, arise here with even greater acuteness than in the debates on the fight against global warming. Indeed, the various waste management choices involve costs, benefits and risks that extend not over decades or centuries, but tens of millennia, and bring into play extreme scenarios for the evolution of the environment. society.

The seminar will seek to present the main lines of the project, give an overview of the methodological challenges posed by its evaluation and analyze the practical responses proposed by the committee of experts, in particular by mobilizing recent advances in economic theory in an open manner. and accessible.

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Franziska Holz, January 15th 2021
2021-01-15 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Franziska Holz, Professor at the German Institute for Economic Studies (DIW Berlin)
Title
Fossil resource markets and climate change

Slides presentation

Abstract

This talk will present recent research results from the ongoing economic research project Fossil resource markets and climate change. Achieving the Paris agreement requires a radical transformation of the energy system and, most notably, a strong reduction of the use of fossil fuels. Hence, assets in the form of fossil energy resources and infrastructure are at the risk of losing value and becoming „stranded assets”. Asset owners have incentives to delay or even prevent the implementation of climate policies. We investigate how long-lived investments and the risk of asset stranding hinder the effectiveness of climate policy. This talk highlights research results on potential global fossil energy scenarios to 2050 as well as regional asset stranding risks in coal and natural gas markets.

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Olivier Damette, December 18th 2020
2020-12-18 11:30 - 13:30 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Olivier Damette, Professor of Economics at the University of Lorraine, a researcher at BETA and associated with the Climate Economics Chair
Title
Is climate a curse or a bless in the Covid-19 virus fighting?

Abstract

Faced with the global pandemic of Covid-19, we need to better understand the links between meteorological factors and the virus and investigate the existence of potential seasonal patterns. In the vein of a recent empirical literature, we reassess the impact of weather factors on Covid-19 daily cases in a panel of advanced and emerging countries between January the first and 28th May 2020. We consider 5 different meteorological factors and go further previous studies. In addition, we give a short-run and medium/long-run time perspective of the dramatic outcomes of the pandemic by both considering infected people (short-run) and fatalities (long-run). Our results reveal that the choice of delays and time perspective of the effects of climatic factors on the virus are crucial as well as Covid-19 outcomes can explain the discrepancies in the previous literature. For the first time, we use a dynamic panel model and consider two different kinds of channels between climate and Covid-19 virus: 1) direct/physical factors related to the survivals and durability dynamics of the virus in surfaces and outdoors and 2) an indirect factor through human behaviors and individual mobility – walking or driving outdoors – to capture the impact of climate on social distancing and thus on Covid-19 outcomes. Our model is estimated emph{per se} two different estimators and persistence, delays in patterns, nonlinearities and numerous specifications changes are taken into account with many robustness checks. Our work reveal that temperatures and, more interestingly, solar radiation – that has been clearly undervalued in previous studies – are significant climatic drivers on Covid-19 outbreak. Indirect effects through human behaviors ie interrelationships between climatic variables and people mobility are significantly positive and should be considered to correctly assess the effects of climatic factors. Since climate is per se purely exogenous, climate tend to strengthen the effect of mobility on virus spread. The net effect from climate on Covid-19 outbreak will thus result from the direct negative effect of climatic variables and from the indirect effect due to the interaction between mobility and them. Direct negative effects from climatic factors on Covid-19 outcomes – when they are significant – are partly compensated by positive indirect effects through human mobility. Suitable control policies should be implemented to control the mobility and social distancing.

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12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

International Webconference on Mobility Challenges – Monday, December 14th 2020
2020-12-14 07:45 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | webconference
Conference jointly sponsored by:

Chair Armand PEUGEOT (CentraleSupélec & ESSEC Business School)
Chair Energy and Prosperity (Louis Bachelier Institute, Risk Foundation)
Climate Economics Chair (Paris Dauphine University)

Find all the conference videos by clicking on each session:
9 am – 10.45 am: Academic session 1
Chairwoman: Anna Creti (Paris Dauphine University/Climate Economics Chair)
• Christina Littlejohn (Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, University of Munich)
• Rim Rejeb (Grenoble Applied Economics Lab – GAEL)
• Katherine Farrow (OECD)

11 am – 12.45 pm : Panel session
Chairman : Pierre Sedze (journaliste-conférencier)
• Cécile Goubet (Secretary General of the French Electric Mobility Development
Association)
• Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega (Director of the Energy and Climate Centre at IFRI)
• Nicolas Beaumont (Senior VP Sustainable Development and Mobility at Michelin)
• Jean-Baptiste Pernot (Chief Operating Officer Automotive Cell Cie – Total and PSA Group)
• Laurence Debrincat (Director Forecasting and Research, Ile de France Mobilités)

2 pm – 3.45 pm: Academic session 2
Chairman: Bernard Sahut (Groupe PSA)
• Benjamin Sovacool (University of Sussex)
• Stef Proost (KU Leuven)
• Jacqueline Piero (Vice President of Policy for Nuvve Corp)

4 pm – 5.45 pm: Academic session 3
Chairman: Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC Chile)
• Shanjun Li (Cornell University)
• Knut Einar Rosendahl (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
• Vincent Viguié (CIRED)
• Edouard Civel (Ecole Polytechnique/Climate Economics Chair)
Find all the conference presentations :
Academic Sessions summary

Christina Littlejohn slides
Rim Rejeb slides
Katherine Farrow slides
Benjamin Sovacool slides
Stef Proost slides
Jacqueline Piero slides
Shanjun Li slides
Knut Einar Rosendahl slides
Vincent Viguié slides
Edouard Civel slides
Coordinators :
Marc Baudry (Paris Nanterre University), Silvia Concettini (Tours University), Anna Creti (Paris Dauphine University), Jan Lepoutre (ESSEC), Guy Meunier (INRAE), Marc Petit (CentraleSupélec), Yannick Perez (CentraleSupélec), Jean-Pierre Ponssard (École Polytechnique).
Scope of the conference :
The restrictions put in place to limit the diffusion of Covid-19 have had an unprecedent impact on all forms of transport, from cars and public transport in cities, to buses, trains and planes, both at national and international levels. Two interdependent key questions need be addressed: is the sector facing permanent shifts and how the crisis can be exploited to favor the transition toward a more sustainable mobility.
Researchers, industry experts, and policy makers from public, private, and civil society are invited to expose their view and analysis on current potentials, new windows of opportunities and discuss policy options based on cutting-edge research.
Check the program
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WEBINAIRE Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Christian de Perthuis, November 20th 2020
2020-11-20 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Open access to the webinar slides: 20-11-20_FLM slides
Intervenant
Professor of economics at Paris-Dauphine University, Christian de Perthuis headed the Climate Mission at Caisse des Dépôts. He is also the founder of the Climate Economics Chair.
Titre
Covid-19 and global warming
Résumé
It is unimaginable that the shock of Covid-19, having affected billions of people simultaneously, will be only a parenthesis before the “return to normal”. In this book, Christian de Perthuis attempts to discern the transformations in the economic organization and the social sphere that are likely to modify the conditions of climate action in the future. “The coronavirus has brought the powerful to their knees and the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our thoughts still rush back and forth, dreaming of a return to normal, trying to connect the future to the past, to stitch them together, refusing to admit the breakup. Arundhati Roy The economy of containment has brought the world to a halt. The Covid-19 has purified the air in our cities and brought down CO2 emissions like no policy before. In an emergency, he imposed drastic reorganizations of production, trade and work. It deepened inequalities, but catalyzed new forms of solidarity. A shock that has affected billions of people simultaneously cannot constitute a simple parenthesis before the “return to normal”. In this essay, Christian de Perthuis urges us not to try to “stitch the future and the past together”, to use Arundhati Roy’s beautiful phrase. He suggests operating “back and forth” between one and the other to shed light on the ruptures that will structure the world of tomorrow. It reveals to us what the health disaster can change for climate action. The post-Covid-19 world will be more digital and less carbon intensive. The redistribution of the flow of people and goods paves the way for an acceleration of the energy transition. Distributive carbon pricing, that of more united societies. The fight against the emergence of new viruses obliges us to respect nature better: to protect the ecosystems that store CO2 from the atmosphere and ward off attacks from new viruses. The post-Covid-19 economy will have to be based on new relationships with the natural environment and the multitude of living beings that make it up.

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12:30 pm – 14:30 pm

WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Eugénie Joltreau, october 16th 2020
2020-10-16 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker
Eugénie Joltreau, Research Fellow at Paris-Dauphine University

Title
Extended Producer Responsibility, Packaging Waste Reduction and Eco-design

Abstract

The main policy addressing the packaging waste issue in the countries of the European Union has been to define recycling objectives along with Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). With EPR, producers finance the recycling and management of waste generated by their products. Within this framework they are expected to internalise waste management costs and engage in eco-design of their packaging, i.e., use less packaging and increase packaging recyclability (e.g., through substitution of materials). EPR has been extended worldwide over recent decades and applied to various waste streams. In this paper, by exploiting temporal variation of an original panel dataset of EPR compliance costs from 25 European countries (1998-2015) and four packaging materials, I evaluate for the first time whether these costs have led to packaging waste reduction and substitution of packaging materials. I find that the EPR financial incentive has resulted in very little (though statistically significant) packaging reduction and no systematic substitution effects between packaging materials.

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WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Olivier Fontan, september 18th 2020
2020-09-18 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
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Speaker
Olivier Fontan, Executive Director of the High Council for the Climat

Title
Annual report Carbon neutrality 2020: “Straightening the course, relaunching the transition”

Abstract

The second annual Carbon Neutrality report of the High Council for the Climate was prepared under specific conditions. Influenced by the health crisis and its economic and social impacts, it is published in the context of a change of government, which intends to accelerate on environmental priorities. Clear expectations are formulated in society, by all generations and across the country, in terms of solidarity in the face of risks and actions favorable to the environment.

The new government inherits the responsibility of managing and emerging from successive health, economic and social crises towards a society and economy that are less vulnerable, better adapted and more resilient to external shocks. Global warming induced by human activities continues to worsen, while France’s climate actions are not up to the challenges or the objectives it has set for itself. The government must resume the course towards carbon neutrality. The recovery planned by the government after the crisis must first be that of the transition that allows compliance with the carbon budgets defined by law. There are few deficits that states cannot afford to ignore: the carbon deficit is one of them. It does not repay itself across our generations, and its interest is paid on our living conditions.

Our annual report shows that this framework is compatible with legitimate employment or health concerns. This transition is possible, useful and inevitable. It involves firm and transversal inter-ministerial management with the national low-carbon strategy as a reference. It calls for improving the accountability of the State, in particular through the objective evaluation and strengthening of its public policies. Under these conditions, the French population will appropriate climate policies, their constraints and their benefits. In addition, the need to be associated with decisions and their implementation is at the heart of the positive response to the Citizen’s Climate Convention. This is also the reason why the High Council for the Climate wanted this year to pay particular attention to the challenges of the just transition and to help advance the debate on the subject, in these times of democratic choices.
The medium and long-term impact of the decisions that will be taken in the coming months should not be underestimated. It places a particular responsibility on the public and private leaders who will have to decide. The High Council for the Climate makes its work available to help them.

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WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Matthieu Glachant, june 19th 2020
2020-06-19 09:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Matthieu Glachant, Professor of economics, MINES Paristech, PSL Research University Director, CERNA – Centre for industrial economics
Slides presentation and the article La rénovation thermique réduit-elle vraiment votre facture d’énergie ? in The Conversation
Title
What is the impact of energy renovation of housing on energy consumption? Ex post evaluation on panel data

Abstract

This article provides an ex post evaluation of the impact of energy renovation works in the residential sector on energy expenditure using data from the Energy Management survey carried out by TNS-SOFRES for the ADEME in 2000 to 2013. The model with fixed effects and instrumental variables identifies a very modest effect of the work since an additional € 1,000 spent leads to an average reduction in the annual energy bill of € 8.29 (or – 0.64%). Consequently, the discounted net profit from the renovation of an average dwelling is very negative. These results question the relevance of subsidies and public aid for renovation if they are motivated solely by energy savings.

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WEBINAR - COVID 19, with the light of ....economics and climate, Thursday June 18th
2020-06-18 15:30 - 16:45 UTC
Thursday, June 18th from 5.30 pm to 6.45 pm
Zoom webinar COVID 19, with the light of ….economics and climate with :

Christian Gollier, General Director, Toulouse School of Economics, Le climat après la fin du mois
Christian de Perthuis, Founder, Climate Economics Chair, Le tic-tac de l’horloge climatique
Patrice Geoffron, Professor Economics, Paris-Dauphine
Christophe Bonnery, President F-AEE

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WEBINAR Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Louis Boisgibault, may 15th 2020
2020-05-15 09:00 - 10:30 UTC
Speaker
Louis Boisgibault, CEO of Valmere and lecturer at HEC Paris

Titre
Energy transition in metropolitan areas, rural areas and the desert
Authors : Louis Boisgibault & Fahad Al Kabbani

Abstract

Metropolis, rurality, desert: three types of space that require a differentiated approach for the energy transition. This book presents detailed field studies in Riyadh, Lille, Fayence, Bokhol, Ouarzazate and in the Arabian desert. It also analyzes local actions and good practices according to resources and constraints to remove the brakes on the energy transition. Solutions are sought by type of space for buildings, transportation, industry and services. Targets are set for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, as part of the commitments of the Paris climate agreement. Educational, Energy transition in metropolises, rural areas and the desert is aimed at elected politicians, professionals and any public wishing to learn about changes in energy production and consumption patterns.

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May 8th WEBINAR : Green Recovery Post-Covid-19 : European or National Strategies?
2020-05-08 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
May 8th, Friday from 3pm to 4pm France (starting 9 AM Eastern Time) Webinar:
Green Recovery Post-Covid-19 : European or National Strategies?
with Anna Creti, Patrice Geoffron, Lara Lázaro Touza and Thomas Pellerin-Carlin
On April 10th, 17 European climate and environment ministers signed an open letter to the European Commission to use the European Green Deal as a framework to shape the EU’s upcoming recovery plan. The need to scale up investments, notably in the fields of sustainable mobility, renewable energy, building renovations, research and innovation, the recovery of biodiversity and the circular economy are the pillar of European resilience. A group of 180 political decision-makers, business leaders, trade unions, campaign groups and think tanks have also urged the bloc to adopt green stimulus measures. Is there a common European strategy or national policies to shape the recovery? The EU is headed for a steep recession triggered by the outbreak, but is divided on how to finance green measures. Proposals have been put forth by several European Member States.
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Conference-debate with Christian Gollier and Christian de Perthuis, Monday, March 23rd, Paris-Dauphine University
2020-03-23 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | Université Paris Dauphine
Following government directives, the conference is cancelled. The event is however postponed to a later date, we will keep you informed via our newsletter and on our website of the precise date as soon as possible.
Thank you for your understanding.

23/03 : 5.30-7 pm – Paris-Dauphine University – ROOM 2

The Association for Energy Economics and the Climate Economics Chair are pleased to invite you to a conference-debate on the recent books:

Christian Gollier, Le climat après la fin du mois
Christian de Perthuis, Le tic-tac de l’horloge climatique

Friday Lunch Meeting, Elisabetta Cornago, February 21st 2020
2020-02-21 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Speaker
Elisabetta Cornago, environmental economist at the OECD Environment Directorate.

Title
Incentives to (not) disclose energy performance information in the housing market
Authors: Elisabetta Cornago and Luisa Dressler
While Elisabetta currently works at the OECD, this paper was developed with Luisa Dressler while at Université Libre de Bruxelles. The paper is unrelated to OECD work and does not present OECD positions on the topic.
Brief abstract

Disclosure of energy performance certificates (EPCs) is often incomplete, which hampers their effectiveness in relieving information asymmetries between landlords and tenants in the housing market. Even when a certificate is available, landlords do not always disclose it. This contradicts the unraveling result, according to which all landlords should disclose quality information unless it is costly to do so. We leverage a cross-sectional dataset of residential rental advertisements from the Belgian region of Brussels to empirically evaluate incentives to disclose an EPC. We find that two fundamental assumptions for the unraveling result are not confirmed in our setting: tenants value energy performance of rental property only when dwellings are of very high quality and do not appear to rationally adjust their expectations when faced with dwellings that withhold their EPC. The paper formulates specific policy advice for reforming EPC mechanisms to increase disclosure rates.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Olivier David Zerbib, January 17th 2020
2020-01-17 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Speaker
Olivier David Zerbib – PhD student in finance at Tilburg University and ISFA

Title

A sustainable capital asset pricing model (S-CAPM): Evidence from green investing and sin stock exclusion

Abstract

I demonstrate how sustainable investing through exclusionary screening and environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration affects asset returns. I develop an asset pricing model with partial segmentation and disagreement among investors. I characterize two exclusion premia generalizing Merton’s (1987) premium on neglected stocks and a taste premium that disentangles the link between ESG and financial performance. By constructing an instrument that captures sustainable investors’ tastes for green firms, I estimate this model applied to green investing and sin stock exclusion using U.S. data between 2000 and 2018. The model outperforms the four-factor model, and yields a taste and an exclusion effect of 1.5% and 2.5% per year, respectively.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Edwin Zaccai, December 20th 2019
2019-12-20 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
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 Change

Discussants
Jean Baptiste Fressoz researcher at the CNRS at the Alexandre Koyré Center of the EHESS, author of “The Anthropocene Event: The Earth, History and Us”. Threshold, 2013.
Amy Dahan, CNRS research director, author of “Governing Climate, What Future Possible ?: Twenty Years of Negotiations.” Press Po Science, 2015.
Abstract

Two degrees, it seems little, but it’s huge. Earth’s temperature has already increased by one degree since pre-industrial times. Carbon emissions related to human activities are primarily responsible. Climatic upheavals are underway and their impacts will only get worse. It is almost certain that we will not hold the goal, solemnly endorsed by the world’s governments, of keeping global warming below 2 ° C. The reason for this incapacity lies in the triple dependence of our societies (technical, economic, cultural) on fossil energies, which constitute a base as diffuse as powerful. Science tells us that at this rate the worst is to be feared. But that does not induce an individual leak. We must, on the contrary, face collectively. Noting the current impossibility of radically changing our way of life and organization, this book nevertheless commits us to follow several realistic paths of adaptation and reform to prepare a less dark future.

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[🇫🇷] Retour sur la Table Ronde : Numérique et environnement : menace ou opportunité ?
2019-11-28 08:00 - 11:00 UTC
Ce 28 novembre, à l’aune de la COP 25, le Digital Society Forum (DSF) organisait un débat ouvert « Numérique et environnement : menace ou opportunité ? » en écho aux préoccupations croissantes des citoyens du monde. Les échanges de cette table ronde ont été menés par des chefs d’entreprise, économistes (dont Anna Creti), journalistes, enseignants, étudiants et blogueurs. Pour nous éclairer et nourrir nos idées, retour sur des points de vue marquants et des pistes de solution.
Voir article sur orange.com
Pour débattre sur le sujet, plusieurs intervenants au musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac à Paris
Animé par Ruth Elkrief, journaliste, le débat a réuni autour de Stéphane Richard, Président Directeur Général d’Orange :
Daniel Cohen, Economiste, professeur et directeur du département d’économie ENS
Anna Creti, Directrice et professeur titulaire de la chaire Economie du Climat à l’Université Paris Dauphine
Mathilde Imer, Co-présidente de Démocratie Ouverte et membre du Comité d’organisation de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat
Hervé Le Treut, Climatologue, Professeur à Sorbonne Université et à l’Ecole Polytechnique
Luis Neves, PDG de la Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
Carlo Purassanta, Président de Microsoft France
Laëtitia Vasseur, Déléguée générale et co-fondatrice de l’association HOP
Le Prof. Jean-Paul Moatti, PDG de l’IRD et co-auteur du premier rapport des Nations Unies d’évaluation des ODD (GSDR 2019) – Angel Prieto, Membre du collectif Pour Un Réveil Écologique (PURE) et Eric Vidalenc, auteur de Pour une écologie numérique seront les grands témoins du débat

[🇫🇷] Présentation du Petit Déjeuner Professionnel L’inventaire national des émissions de gaz à effet de serre du 22 novembre 2019
2019-11-22 07:30 - 09:00 UTC
Echange autour de Jérôme Boutang, Directeur Général du CITEPA* sur l’inventaire national des émissions de gaz à effet de serre
De plus en plus, les objectifs des politiques d’atténuation du changement climatique sont définis en termes de « neutralité carbone », une situation qui égalise les émissions brutes de gaz à effet de serre avec la capacité d’absorption du CO2 atmosphérique par les puits de carbone.
Ceci pose de multiples questions sur la métrique à utiliser pour rendre l’objectif opérationnel.
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Qu’est-ce que le CITEPA ?*
Le CITEPA (Centre Interprofessionnel Technique d’Etudes de la Pollution Atmosphérique) est une association à but non lucratif. Il élabore, vérifie et diffuse de manière impartiale des informations relatives aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES) et de polluants atmosphériques. La réalisation de l’inventaire national annuel des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et de polluants atmosphériques en France constitue l’activité de référence du CITEPA depuis plus de 20 ans. En tant que point focal sur les émissions françaises, le CITEPA se fonde sur des sources statistiques fiables, ainsi que sur des travaux d’experts dans tous les secteurs d’activité, pour estimer, compiler, synthétiser et diffuser des données, des analyses et des informations auprès des professionnels et des opérateurs publics et privés.

Pricing Carbon: The Silver Bullet for the Energy Transition? IBERDROLA Manuel Marin Chair and Climate Economics Chair Conference– Bruges
2019-11-18 08:45 - 15:00 UTC | Collège d’Europe, Bruges, Verversdijk, Bruges Campus, Bruges, 8000, Belgique
On 18 November 2019, the IBERDROLA Manuel Marín Chair for European Energy Policy of the Department for Political and Governance Studies (College of Europe) and the Climate Economics Chair (CEC, Paris-Dauphine University) will jointly organise a conference entitled Pricing Carbon: The Silver Bullet for the Energy Transition?
The conference will be introduced by prof. Dr. Béatrice Dumont (Head of Department of the Economics Department at the College of Europe), Prof. Dr. Dirk Buschle (Chairholder of the IBERDROLA Manuel Marín Chair for European Energy Policy) and Prof. Dr. Marc Baudry (Senior Research Fellow at the CEC and head of the Economics Department at Paris-Nanterre University).
College of Europe, Bruges
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