Chaire Economie du Climat

Conference : Emissions Trading: Which Way Forward?
2019-03-28 07:00 - 15:30 UTC | Université Paris Dauphine
The Climate Economics Chair (CEC), the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) are co-organizing a Conference : Emissions Trading: Which Way Forward?
on Thursday, March 28th at Paris Dauphine-University from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Please consult this link for all information (program, registration…)

Friday Lunch Meeting, Fabien Roques, 19th of April 2019
2019-04-19 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker

Fabien Roques, Associate Professor at Paris-Dauphine University

Title

A Climate and socio-economic study of a multi-member state carbon price floor to the power sector

Abstract

Our study shows the limitations of the recent ETS reform and the potential benefits from a Carbon Price Floor (CPF).

Objectives:
-Identify potential scenarios for a multi-country,regional carbon price floor (CPF) in Europe
-Provide a quantitative assessment of the impact of different CPF scenarios on the ETS and on renewable energy investment cases
-Model the impact on power sector decarbonisation – including on coal and gas generation, and on renewable energy investment cases

-Analyse some key socio-economic impacts including on consumer energy costs,Energy Intensive Industries and Government revenue.

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[🇫🇷] Compte rendu du Petit Déjeuner Professionnel sur la nouvelle PPE du 26 avril 2019
2019-04-26 06:30 - 08:00 UTC
Lors d’un premier événement organisé en 2018, la Chaire Economie du Climat avait convié les principaux acteurs de la filière à partager leurs attentes vis-à-vis du débat public autour de la révision de la PPE. Un an après, la Chaire a organisé un second petit déjeuner visant à éclairer la cohérence du projet de nouvelle PPE publié en début d’année avec les objectifs de la transition énergétique en France.
La table ronde était animée par Jacques Percebois et Boris Solier autour de la question: Nouvelle PPE : quels impacts pour la transition énergétique et réunissait Christophe Beguinet (Syndicat CFDT), Laurent Joudon (Directeur d’études économiques, EDF), Marion Lettry (Déléguée générale adjointe, SER), Isabelle Muller (Déléguée générale, UFIP) et Stanislas Reizine (Sous-directeur du système électrique et ENR, DGEC).
[🇫🇷] Lire le compte rendu qui fournit une synthèse des points forts qui s’en sont dégagés

Friday Lunch Meeting, Alexis Tantet, 26th april 2019
2019-04-26 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker

Alexis Tantet, Postdoctoral fellow at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory of the Polytechnic School

Title

« Impact of climate variability on optimal wind-solar energy mixes – The Italian case »

Extract

We develop a renewable energy mix optimization program. The main novelty is to take into account and evaluate the impact of climate variability, from multi-decadal to hourly time scales, on the mix. This impact is resolved by plugging regional climate simulations over the 1989–2012 period into renewable energy production and demand models at regional scale. The optimal mix is then inferred from a mean-variance analysis with as objectives both to maximize the mean of the total renewable penetration and to minimize the variance, or risk, of the latter. We consider two cases: in the first one, the analysis takes cross-region correlations in the production and the demand into account. In the second one, synergies between regions are ignored. As a first case study, we apply the numerical model to Italy, a country with a relatively high share of renewables. We focus on the mix maximizing the ratio of the mean renewable penetration over the risk for the same renewable capacity as installed in 2015. Our main findings are that (i) the optimal technological and spatial capacity distribution — with about two thirds wind and one third solar — differs significantly from the actual mix (with a substantial overinvestment in photovoltaics); and (ii) ignoring the impact of interannual and intraday climate variability on the risk strongly impacts the optimal mix.

This study shows the importance of basing renewable energy development incentives on optimal strategies taking into account both the risk and the impact of climate variability on the latter.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Jacques de Gerlache, May 17th 2019
2019-05-17 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker

Jacques de Gerlache, Ecotoxicologist and Professor at the Paul-Lambin Institute (Brussels), Scientific Advisor to the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development.

Book
Mettre en oeuvre les transitions énergétiques – Stratégie intégrative et gestion opérationnelle (Dunod Editions)

Abstract

Greenhouse gases, energy production (fossil, renewable, nuclear), transformation, transportation or storage: the challenges of global energy transitions are many and varied. So much so that policy makers, economists or business leaders often tend to consider them individually. This book proposes an integrative approach to these energy transitions, taking into account all the dimensions of these issues. After making an inventory of current energy issues, he explains how all these aspects are closely related and why treating them independently will only lead to inefficient solutions. It then synthesizes them into a global strategy and then proposes an operational methodology to implement action plans, whether at local, national or international level.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Marielle Brunette, May 24th 2019
2019-05-24 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker
Marielle Brunette, researcher at INRA and at the Office of Theoretical and Applied Economics (Nancy)
Article
Propensity and Intensity of Adaptation: The Role of Forester’s Preferences in Risk and Uncertainty (co-authored with M. Hanewinkel and R. Yousefpour, 2019)

Abstract
This paper studies the foresters’ risk and uncertainty preferences as a potential driver for adaptation decisions towards climate change. Adaptation decisions are analysed in terms of propensity to adapt and intensity of adaptation. We build a questionnaire in which we quantified risk and uncertainty preferences through lottery choices. We also ask questions about adaptation decisions, and about the characteristics of the forest and the forester. We show that French foresters are, on average, more risk and uncertainty averse than German ones. Our results also reveal that most of the foresters has already modified their management practices, in particular by increasing the species mix and assisting more the tree regeneration. When adaptation is not implemented, the main explanation is the lack of information. The forester who has the higher propensity to adapt is young, rich, with a low degree of risk aversion, and is German. The intensity of the adaptation is negatively influenced by risk aversion and being a French forester. Finally, uncertainty aversion has no significant impact neither on the propensity to adapt nor on the intensity of adaptation.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Madeline Werthschulte, June 21st 2019
2019-06-21 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker
Madeline Werthschult, MSC Research Assistant at the Chair of Microeconomics (WWU Munster) with a Focus on Energy and Resource Economics.
Article
Cost Misperceptions and Energy Consumption. Authors: Madeline Werthschulte and Andreas Löschel

Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyse the extent to which energy cost misperceptions can predict households’ energy consumption. The focus is on two sorts of misperceptions: first, uncertainty in energy prices and second, present biased discounting of future energy costs. By running an artefactual field experiment with a representative sample of 711 participants, we gather incentivized measures of these two misperceptions and observe participant’s revealed electricity consumption. Our main finding is that participants with present bias are predicted to consume on average 9% more electricity than participants with time-consistent discounting. Our results further suggest that neither the true marginal electricity price nor the expected marginal electricity price can predict electricity consumption. Taken together our results raise doubt in the effectiveness of classical price based policies.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Laurence Scialom, June 28th 2019
2019-06-28 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker
Laurence Scialom, University Professor at Paris Ouest Nanterre. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French Prudential Supervisory and Resolution Authority (ACPR) and the Investor Advisory Committee of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).
Title
La fascination de l’ogre – ou comment desserrer l’étau de la finance
Abstract
Finance today operates in a vacuum, serving above all its own interests. But banks are supposed to meet the needs of companies. To finance projects and manage risks: how could we forget the essential? Why do States so obediently serve the interests of the financial sector? Such questions escape democratic debate because the jargon that prevails in these environments makes them unintelligible to citizens. Laurence Scialom’s essay aims to demystify finance and allow independent reflection on these questions. It strengthens the self-defense capabilities of our economies in the face of often predatory finance: let’s stop feeding the ogre! By applying the reforms outlined in this book, we would be able to consider finance clearly and put it in its proper place.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Jonathan Wiener, July 12th 2019
2019-07-12 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker
Jonathan Wiener, Professor of Law and Public and Environmental Policy at Duke University and Associate Researcher at Resources for the Future (RFF).
Title
Climate Policy in the American Legal System
Brief abstract

In the United States, climate change policy may be shaped not only by the Congress and by executive agencies such as US EPA, but also by judicial decisions. This presentation will discuss the prospects for important cases unfolding in the American courts, notably the ‘Juliana’ case brought on behalf of children to press the US government to take more action on climate change, and the likely challenges to the new US EPA rules on greenhouse gas emissions from electric power (the new Trump Administration ACE rule to replace the Obama Administration CPP) and from vehicles (the Trump Administration SAFE rule to revise the Obama Administration CAFE rule).

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Cancellation - Round table "Economics of Electricity" with Anna Creti and Fulvio Fontini - Friday, September 13th 2019
2019-09-13 14:30 - 16:30 UTC | Université Paris Dauphine
Following the RATP strike announced on Friday September 13th, we regret to have to cancel the round table of Anna Creti and Fulvio Fontini which was scheduled to take place at the Paris-Dauphine University.
We will keep you informed as soon as possible of any possible postponement of dates.
For the release of the book Economics of Electricity. Markets, Competition and Rules Cambridge University Press from Anna Creti and Fulvio Fontini, the Climate Economics Chair is inviting you to assist at the round table organized on Friday, September 13th from 4.30pm to 6.30 pm with :

The authors : Anna Creti (Paris-Dauphine, CEC) and Fulvio Fontini (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italie)
Sylvie Aniel (Paris-Dauphine)
Claude Crampes (Toulouse School of Economics)
Patrice Geoffron (Paris-Dauphine)
Fabienne Salaun (EDF)

Université Paris-Dauphine – Salle A709
Free registration required – limited place –

Friday Lunch Meeting, Jean-Philippe Nicolai , September 20th 2019
2019-09-20 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker
Jean-Philippe Nicolai, Lecturer at Paris Nanterre University.

Title
Designing an EU Ship Recylcing Licence: A Roadmap
Authors: Jean-Philippe Nicolai et Caroline Devaux

Abstract

Faced with the widespread use of dismantling sites in Asia, whose processes present alarming health and
environmental issues, the European Commission has raised the question of implementing a financial mechanism to encourage
shipowners to use higher standards for ship recycling.
This mechanism would take the form of a recycling licence applicable to any vessel wanting to call at a port within EU territory, whether flying the flag of an EU Member State or of a third country.
The present paper aims to critically assess the main features of the EU’s proposed mechanism from a legal and economic
perspective and to examine the criticisms the mechanism has received to date. Our study shows that reform is desirable but
that the nature and success of the proposed licence remain uncertain, depending on whether the mechanism is able to provide
sufficient incentives. In this light, the paper makes several suggestions designed to improve the project’s economic and legal
viability. It also shows that such a project could speed up the entry into force of the Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and
Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships adopted in May 2009, whose ratification process has been severely delayed.

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Save the Date . CEC Annual Conference - Transition to a low-carbon economy - Friday, October 11th 2019
2019-10-11 06:45 - 15:00 UTC | Université Paris Dauphine
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Friday Lunch Meeting, Etienne Espagne , October 18th 2019
2019-10-18 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
Speaker
Etienne Espagne,economist at the research department of the French Development Agency (AFD) and associate researcher at CERDI

Title
Impacts of Extreme Climate Events on Technical Efficiency in Vietnamese Rice Farming
Authors: Yoro Diallo (CERDI), Sébastien Marchand (CERDI) and Etienne Espagne (AFD and CERDI)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine farm household-level impacts of weather extreme events on Vietnamese rice technical efficiency. Vietnam is considered among the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and the Vietnamese economy is highly dependent on rice production that is strongly affected by climate change. A stochastic frontier analysis is applied with census panel data and weather data from 2010 to 2014 to estimate these impacts while controlling for both adaptation strategy and household characteristics. We find that weather shocks measured by the occurrence of floods, typhoons and droughts negatively affect technical efficiency. Also, additional days with a temperature above 31°C dampen technical efficiency and the negative effect is increasing with temperature. Also, this study combines estimated marginal effects of extreme temperature on technical efficiency with future climate scenarios (RCP 4.5 and 8.5) to project the potential impact of hot temperatures till the end of century on rice technical efficiency.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Christian Gollier, November 15th 2019
2019-11-15 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Speaker
Christian Gollier,General Director of the Toulouse School of Economics and member of the scientific committee of the Climate Economics Chair

Title

The climate after the end of the month

Abstract

For a long time, the highly flammable illusion of a wonderful ecological transition that would create jobs and wealth for all, while restoring nature to its former glory, has long been sold to public opinion. This cave of Ali Baba does not exist. On the contrary, whatever we do, the fight for the climate is detrimental to purchasing power. It forces us to turn away in the medium term from this fossil energy that has made our fortunes for two centuries and to ask the developing countries to do the same. This war for climate can not be won without the mobilization of everyone. This requires applying the polluter-pays principle by imposing a universal carbon price reflecting the value of the damage it generates, even if it compensates for the poorest. But are the French ready to sacrifice a little of their welfare today to improve the well-being of others, even if this other is essentially not French, and it is probably not even not born yet? For most, here and elsewhere, the end of the month passes before the end of the world. This disturbing observation raises the question of our responsibilities towards humanity.

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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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[🇫🇷] 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.
[🇫🇷] Retrouver la présentation
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.

[🇫🇷] 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

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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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, 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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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

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.
The webinar discusses the different perspectives being actually debated.
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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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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 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 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, 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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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

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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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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