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 […]

  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 […]

https://youtu.be/cttRTNmt1tA 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, […]

https://youtu.be/rXlulgywy7Q 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 […]

  https://youtu.be/Os4nw7e9UJc 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 […]

https://youtu.be/v7Zbe_vvskc 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 […]

  https://youtu.be/7A_NIUbBB-0 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 […]

  https://youtu.be/g5Xgo_l163s 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 […]

  https://youtu.be/sSDwqTRtKVA 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 […]

  https://youtu.be/e_N5qtC3a1k 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 […]

https://youtu.be/sCxQ7Hc0JhM 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 […]

https://youtu.be/kvVLivZ0KgE 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 […]

  https://youtu.be/qpJFnNjbv-s 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 […]

https://youtu.be/OschD4MJyt0 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 […]

https://youtu.be/iSXvZACBoAY 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, […]