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 […]