Friday Lunch Meeting, Stéphane Gloriant, 11th of january 2019

Stéphane Gloriant (Researcher "Macroeconomic modeling of green growth" at the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition)will lecture about "A quantified assessment of the French carbon tax".   Abstract Called the "climate-energy contribution", the carbon tax was introduced in France in 2014 to price energy-related CO2 emissions not covered by the European emissions trading system. Its […]

Friday Lunch Meeting, Yves Marignac, 18th of January

Yves Marignac (Spokesperson and delegate for the prospective analysis at the negaWatt association) will present the synthesis of the negaWatt 2017-2050 scenario (to be consulted here). summary The negaWatt scenario is a forward-looking exercise that precisely describes the possible trajectory to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by a factor of 4 and get rid […]

Universal Access to Energy – Back to the professional breakfast

Schneider Electric

On January 25th, 2019, the Climate Economics Chair and the Energy and Prosperity Chair organised a thematic breakfast at Schneider Electric to launch their research programme on access to energy. After an overview of the main issues related to electrification in emerging countries, the researchers of the Chairs presented their current and future work on […]

Friday Lunch Meeting, Thomas Douenne, 25th of january 2019

Thomas Douenne (Doctorant à Paris School of Economics / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) will lecture about his paper The vertical and horizontal distributive effects of energy taxes: A case study of a French policy.   Abstract This paper proposes a micro-simulation assessment of the distributional impacts of the French carbon tax. It shows that the […]

Friday Lunch Meeting, Clément Bonnet, 1st of February

Clément Bonnet (researcher in environmental economics and energy at IFP Energie Nouvelles) will present his article "Copper at the crossroads: Assessing the impact of low-carbon energy transition on a non-ferrous and structural metal".   Abstract The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the energy transition on the copper sector. It aims […]

Friday Lunch Meeting, Olivier Massol, 22th of february 2019

Olivier Massol (Professor at the Institut Français du Pétrole et Énergies Nouvelles (IFP Énergies Nouvelles)) will lecture about his paper Phasing out the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve: Policy insights from a world helium model (link here).  Slides' presentation    Abstract This paper develops a detailed partial equilibrium model of the global helium market to study […]