Chaire Economie du Climat

Fall School, Climate Economics Chair, October, Thursday 13th and Friday 14th 2022
2022-10-13 07:30 - 2022-10-14 14:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Palais Brongniart, Salle La Place, 2ème étage, 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
Palais Brongniart
28 Place de la Bourse
75002 Paris
2nd floor– La Place Fintech
Program pdf
Find the presentations of Day 1 by clicking on the title of the interventions
Thursday, October 13th
Carbon neutrality
Olivier Massol (IFP School, CEC) Demand response as a source of flexibility in low-carbon power systems: insights from the French case
Adrien Nicolle (Centrale Supélec, CEC) – CCS The economics of CCS infrastructures
Behrang Shirizadeh (CIRED, Deloitte) Long-term optimization of the Hydrogen-Electricity nexus in France: Green, Blue, or Pink Hydrogen
Carbon Pricing and Border Tax adjustment
Marc Baudry (Paris Nanterre University, CEC) What prospects and challenges for the EU-ETS in the years to come?
Marie Raude (Paris Nanterre University, CEC) Firms in the EU ETS: a categorisation based on transaction behaviour
Etienne Espagne (The World Bank) Impacts of CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries
Climate justice
Anna Creti (Paris Dauphine – PSL University, CEC) and Maria Eugenia Sanin (Paris Saclay University, CEC) North versus South: the transition dilemma
Edouard Pignède (AgroParisTech, CEC) Who carries the burden of climate change? Impact of droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Marc Fleurbaey (PSE) Inequalities and Carbon Pricing

Friday, October 14th
Climate economics, decision making and policies
Summary of the scientific sessions, by the Charmen and Chairwomen
Round table: how do climate economics influence stakeholders’ decisions?
Philippe Delacote (INRAE, CEC), Chairman
With:
Anne Varet – Ademe
Edouard Lanckriet – Bioline
Frédérique Rigal – Airbus
Laurent Joudon – EDF
Juliette Quef – Vert Le Média
Vipulan Puvaneswaran – Environmental Activist

Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Adrien Fabre, September 16th 2022
2022-09-16 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker

Adrien Fabre is a CNRS researcher at CIRED
Title
Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies
Abstract
Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key factors: the perceived effectiveness of the policies in reducing emissions, their perceived distributional impacts on lower-income households (inequality concerns), and their own household’s gains and losses. We also show that information that specifically addresses these key concerns can substantially increase the support for climate policies in many countries. Explaining how policies work and who can benefit from them is critical to foster policy support. Simply making people more worried about climate change is not an effective strategy to foster policy support. Furthermore, we identify several socioeconomic and lifestyle factors – most notably education, political leanings, car usage, and availability of public transportation– that are significantly correlated with both policy views and overall reasoning and beliefs about climate policies. Yet, it is difficult to predict beliefs or policy views based on these characteristics only.

Practical informations:
Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place exceptionnaly from 12.00 pm to 1.30 pm
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IAEE WEBINAR : Climate Change Policies: lessons from Europe, Septembre 14th, 2022
2022-09-14 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris)
The International Association for Energy Economics has rolled out an extensive program of webinars on topics reaching all facets of energy economics.
IAEE is inviting you on September 14th, 2022 to the webinar with the Climate Economics Chair members on Climate Change Policies: lessons from Europe topic.
4 pm to 5 pm (Paris time) – 10 am to 11 am (Eastern time)
Moderator:
Anna Creti: Full Professor at Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, Paris; Director of the Climate Economics Chair (Dauphine PSL University)
Speakers:
Marc Baudry: Professor of economics at the University of Paris Nanterre and head of the research program CO2 pricing and Low-Carbon Innovation at the Climate Economics Chair
Philippe Delacote: Research director at INRAe and head of the Agriculture and Forests research program at the Climate Economics Chair.
Olivier Massol: Professor of economics at IFP School, a graduate school of engineering, and serves as head of the Energy Transitions research program at the Climate Economics Chair.
Europe is one of the worldwide leaders in setting environmental and climate policies. We will review some of them, to the light of the latest developments proposed in the context of the RePowerEU framework, prompted by the Russian-Ukranian war, and the recent decisions on how to reach carbon neutrality in 2050. We will discuss the EU-ETS credibility, policies to decarbonize electricity demand, carbon offsetting.
Informations & Registration

Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Raja Chakir, June 17th 2022
2022-06-17 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker

Raja Chakir is a Research Director, Paris-Saclay Applied Economics, INRAE-AgroParisTech.
Title
The impact of Climate Change on Farmland Prices: a Repeat-Ricardian analysis
Abstract
The impact of Climate Change on Farmland Prices: a Repeat-Ricardian analysis
Ricardian analyses of farmland values have become a cornerstone of the literature assessing the impacts of climate change on the value of agriculture. However, concerns about the lack of a formal econometric strategy to deal with omitted farmland characteristics have raised doubts about the identification of such impacts. This paper proposes an original method for estimating Ricardian models with plot fixed effects to control for confounding omitted variables. Specifically, we use plot-level repeat-sale data to investigate how differences in farmland prices are explained by differences in climate conditions between two sale dates in France from 1996 to 2019. We show that, in comparison to our repeat-Ricardian estimates, standard Ricardian analyses result in artificially low benefits of climate change. In particular, our repeat-Ricardian estimates indicate that hotter summers should benefit French agriculture, in complete opposition to our pooled Ricardian estimates or to the remainder of the literature. Our repeat-Ricardian results are robust to several specifications, length-definitions of climate and sub-samples. Our simulations suggest that the omitted variable bias in standard Ricardian analyses leads to an underestimation of the impacts of future climate changes of between 56% and 96%.

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Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Akshaya Jha, may 20th 2022
2022-05-20 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker

Akshaya Jha is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy.
Institution: Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Title
“Start-up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition”
Abstract

Firms expect to recover the fixed costs required to start production by earning positive operating profits in subsequent periods. We develop a dynamic framework to calculate the series of prices and plant output allocations that minimize the production costs of serving electricity demand and allows for the recovery of the start-up costs incurred by fossil-fuel power plants. Using this framework, we show that static comparisons of observed market prices and marginal costs can overstate the rents attributable to market power in an electricity market where power plants frequently stop and start production in response to output from rooftop solar panels. We estimate that increases in solar capacity correspond to increases in the aggregate operating profits earned by fossil-fuel plants because competition softens at sunset – plants displaced by output from solar panels during the day must incur start-up costs to compete in the evening, reducing the number of plants operating in the evening and thus increasing firms’ ability to exercise market power.

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Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place from 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm
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Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Emmanuel Combet, April 15th 2022
2022-04-15 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker

Emmanuel Combet is a researcher, senior economist in the Foresight and Research Executive Department of ADEME, coordinator of the foresight program.
Title
Ademe “Transition(s) 2050” scenarios: Four transition scenarios towards carbon neutrality in France
Abstract

Faced with the climate emergency, the changes to be made are of such magnitude that it is nevertheless essential to accelerate the debates on the choices of society to be made, especially since the path to be taken remains unclear, even unknown. , for decision-makers and citizens. This is why ADEME wanted to submit to the debate four “typical” paths, coherent and contrasting to lead France towards the objective of carbon neutrality in 2050. This unprecedented forecasting exercise is based on two years of development work, the mobilization of around a hundred ADEME employees and regular exchanges with a scientific committee and external partners and service providers, specialists in the various fields. This seminar will be an opportunity to review and discuss this work, the methods used and the analyzes carried out, as well as the information and lessons that can be drawn from it. The published documents, the presentation of the scenarios and the main lessons are available online here.

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Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place from 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm
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Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Jean-Philippe Nicolaï, March 18th 2022
2022-03-18 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Jean-Philippe Nicolaï is Professor of Economics at Grenoble INP-Génie Industriel, member of the Gael laboratory
Title
“Digital sobriety certificates as an instrument for regulating digital pollution” co-written with Lise Péragin (M2 EEET Paris-Saclay)
Abstract

The objective of this article is to study digital pollution and to question the possibility of establishing certificates of digital sobriety which would aim to promote investments or changes in practices in terms of digital sobriety. This project is inspired by the concept of energy saving certificates which have been implemented in several European countries. The principle would be to implement obligations relating to certain digital players in order to make investments in digital sobriety.
Practical informations:
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Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Imelda, February 18th 2022
2022-02-18 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Imelda is Assistant Professor of Economics in Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Title
Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewables’ Regulation
Background

We provide theoretical and empirical results regarding the market power implications of different types of renewable support schemes in electricity markets. In particular, we seek to understand how the exposure of renewable energies to wholesale price fluctuations affects the overall degree of market power. Theoretically, we find that shielding renewables from price fluctuations is effective at curbing market power in relatively concentrated markets. Empirically, we leverage several short-lived changes to renewables’ support mechanisms in the Spanish electricity market and find that the switch from fixed to market-based pricing caused a 2-4% reduction in the average price-cost markup.

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Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Emmanuel Hache, January 21st 2022
2022-01-21 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Emmanuel HACHE is an economist-prospectivist in the Economics and Environmental Assessment department of IFP Énergies nouvelles. Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris I and authorized to supervise research at the University of Paris-Nanterre. He is research director at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) and associate researcher at Economix (EconomiX-CNRS, University Paris Nanterre). He is the leader of the GENERATE project (Geopolitics of renewable energies and prospective analysis of energy transition), which received funding from the National Research Agency (ANR) between 2017 and 2020. , Kyoto University (Japan)
Title
Prospective methodology for assessing the material needs of the energy transition.
Abstract

European Union regulations require automakers to comply with specific targets for the CO2 emissions rates of the new vehicles they sell. The targets have been tightened at regular intervals since the beginning of the regulatory program in 2012. EU directives also seek to attain a zero-emissions fleet by 2035. In addition, several member states have adopted measures to encourage the sales of low-emissions and electric vehicles (EVs). We examine the role of such policies—compared with “traditional” determinants of car sales, such as taxes and fuel prices, local ordinances banning diesel vehicles from entering specific areas, and the EV charging infrastructure—using new car sales data from Germany from January 2014 to March 2020. With over three million new cars sold every year, a fleet of over 48 million (as of 2019), and a renowned auto industry, Germany is the largest car market in Europe. The average CO2 emissions of new cars sold in Germany declined at a fast rate until approximately 2016, then leveled off and even slightly increased as the share of diesel vehicles dropped. Some of these “missing” diesel cars appear to have been replaced for the most part by conventional gasoline vehicles. Hybrids, plug-in hybrids and EVs have been growing, but in a less than proportional fashion. In Germany the annual car circulation tax is linked with the CO2 emissions rate of the vehicles, penalizing vehicles with larger engines, diesel engines, and higher CO2 emissions rate per km (Alberini and Horvath, 2021). As of 2016, substantial rebates have been offered to drivers who purchase all electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Concerns however have been expressed as to whether the charging infrastructure remains a limiting constraint to the purchase of EVs (Illmann and Kluge, 2020; Sommer and Vance, 2021) and whether subsidies to charging stations are more effective than rebates to consumers (Cole et al., 2021). In addition, certain metro areas in Germany have adopted or have been considering the adoption of diesel vehicle bans out of concern for local pollution problems, a trend that partly overlapped with the Volkswagen “Dieselgate” scandal. We use a panel dataset documenting new car sales data at the Bundesland (state) level from 2014 to early 2020 to examine which of these factors seem to have been more effective at shaping new cars sales. We exploit the variation in taxes, fuel costs and rebates across types of cars and over time, as well as the variation in diesel ban ordinances and charging infrastructure across locales and over time. Our goal is to disentangle the effect of each factor and policy, assess the contribution of each to the new car sales patterns and CO2 emissions, and to examine the heterogeneity of such effects across different parts of the country.
Practical informations:
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Exceptional Friday Lunch Meeting Research, Anna Alberini, January 14th 2022
2022-01-14 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Anna Alberini received her PhD in economics from the University of California San Diego. She is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at UMD. She currently teaches PhD-level econometrics and an undergraduate course on the economics of climate change, and supervises numerous graduate and undergraduate research projects. She is an energy economist and an environmental economist with a major focus on the economics of health and safety and non-market valuation. Her energy economics research focuses on residential energy demand, energy efficiency decisions and consequences of such decisions, policies targeted as shaping residential energy demand, and on vehicle fuel economy and driving decisions. Alberini is currently a member of the Editorial Board of The Energy Journal, the International Advisory Board of Energy Policy, and an associate Editor of Energy Efficiency. She is also the Chair of the American Statistical Association’s Advisory Committee to the US Energy Information Administration, and has previously served two stints on the US EPA Science Advisory Board—Environmental Economics.
Title
Competing Forces in the German New Car Market:How do they Affect Diesel, PHEV, and BEV Sales? by Anna Alberini, Marco Horvath and Colin Vance.
PowerPoint Presentation
Abstract

In the context of the energy transition, the criticality of materials (cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, etc.) entering into the composition of low-carbon technologies could be exacerbated by the increase in their consumption. The objective of this presentation is to propose a forward-looking methodology based on the Times Markal model developed at IFPEN to assess the consumption of materials by 2050 and the public policies necessary to reduce criticality.
Practical informations:
Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place from 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm
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Friday Lunch Meeting Debate, Joseph Delatte, December 17th 2021
2021-12-17 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speaker
Joseph Delatte is a Postdoctoral Junior Researcher at the Joint Research Project for Renewable Energy Economics, Kyoto University (Japan)
Title
COP26: from Paris’s promises to concrete actions?
Abstract

Six years after the Paris Agreement, COP26 is the most significant momentum for countries of the world to agree on concrete pathways to reach the 1.5-degrees target. The summit’s critical questions encompass enhancing NDCs, deciding on solid Finance packages for developing countries, producing new public-private partnerships for technological breakthroughs, and finalizing the Paris rules book, especially on Article 6. This seminar will discuss COP 26’s achievements on these critical issues. In addition, it will further engage the discussion on the serious political challenges surrounding the enforcement of Article 6 and internationally transferred mitigation outcomes.
Practical informations:
Our Friday Lunch Meeting will take place from 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm
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International Conference on Mobility Challenges, Decembre 9th and 10th, 2021
2021-12-09 07:30 - 2021-12-10 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | CentraleSupélec – Université Paris Saclay, 9 rue Joliot-Curie, Gif sur Yvette, 91190
The Climate Economics Chair is organizing on December 9th and 10th, an international conference on mobility challenges in partnership with the Armand Peugeot Chair and the Chair Energy and Prosperity Chair.
Coordinators: Marc Baudry (University Paris Nanterre), Anna Creti (University Paris Dauphine PSL), Jan Lepoutre (ESSEC), Guy Meunier (INRAE), Marc Petit (CentraleSupélec), Yannick Perez (CentraleSupélec), Jean-Pierre Ponssard (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique).
Program:
December 9th (8.30 am – 7 pm)

9 am – 10.30 am – Plenary session : Infrastructures and electric mobility
11 am -12.30 pm – Panel on Financing the transition towards a greener mobility
2 pm -4 pm – Analysis of regional initiatives
4.30 pm -6 pm – Mitigating GHG Emissions and fairness issues

December 10th (morning) –
Parallel sessions for doctoral and postdoctoral students
Check the detailed program
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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
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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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The Friday Lunch Meeting will take place via the tool Zoom.
The link will be communicated once your complete registration
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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[🇫🇷] 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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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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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)
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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