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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]