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 […]