Chaire Economie du Climat

Chair's Annual Conference on October 11th 2017
2017-10-11 06:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Université Paris Dauphine
Please join us at the 7th Edition of our Annual Conference on October 11th 2017 from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm, at Dauphine University, Salle Raymond Aron.

The morning sessions will be devoted to academic presentations of recent papers and books written by Chair’s researchers.
Two round tables will follow in the afternoon:

The first will be dedicated to energy and climate policies in the US and Europe, in the aftermath of the American withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
The second will gather personnalities from the business community and civil society to discuss the economic and financial instruments for the low carbon transition with Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Anne Hidalgo, Isabelle Kocher, Jean-Luc Petithuguenin and Audrey Pulvar.

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Chair's Friday Lunch Meeting, November 24th, 2017
2017-11-24 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris)
Program: Audrey Berry , CIRED PhD student, is working on fuel poverty issues in different sectors : Energy, Transportation, Housing, Land.
Theme: “Carbon tax and its redistributive effects.
Read the article here: 2017_06_30 Compensating households from carbon tax regressivity and fuel poverty
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Friday Lunch Meeting, December 8th, 2017
2017-12-08 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris)
Program: François Gemenne, Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Program”Politiques de la Terre” at Sciences Po (Médialab), is also a qualified researcher at FNRS University of Liege (CEDEM) and at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University (CEARC).
Theme: “Impact of migrants’ savings rebates on the vulnerability of their community of origin to the impacts of climate change.
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Friday Lunch Meetings, December 15th, 2017
2017-12-15 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris)
Program: Emmanuel Garbolino, Associate researcher at the “Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises” (CRC) at MINES ParisTech. His work focuses on the study of the vulnerability and resilience of territories to natural and technological risks. (theme TBC)
Theme: “Anticipating climate change effect on biomass productivity and vegetation structure of Mediterranean Forests to promote the sustainability of the wood energy supply chain” by Garbolino (E.), Daniel (W.), Hinojos Mendoza (G.) and Sanseverino-Godfrin (V.), 2017)

Read the article on Research Gate here.
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Friday Lunch Meeting Nicholas Rivers, January 19th
2018-01-19 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
English session
Program: Nicholas Rivers is an Associate Professor in Public and International Affairs at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the economic evaluation of environmental policies, using econometric and computational methods.
Theme: Article’s presentation « Public Transit and Air Pollution ».
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Friday Lunch Meeting François-Xavier Oliveau, January 26th
2018-01-26 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
Program: Mr. François-Xavier Oliveau will speak on the theme: “The new tools of environmental public policies in the era of the digital revolution and microcapitalism”.

He will rely primarily on his book published in October 2017 : “Microcapitalisme – vers un nouveau pacte social”.

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Friday Lunch Meeting Marianne Ollivier-Trigalo, February 16th
2018-02-16 11:30 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
Program: Marianne Ollivier-Trigalo from the laboratoire Ville, Mobilité, Transport will present « Composante carbone, rapprochement diesel-essence, réforme de la TICPE : Transition énergétique ou fiscale ? »

Read the abstract: https://hal-enpc.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01619359

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Cédric Philibert, March 30th 2018
2018-03-30 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
Program : Cédric Philibert (Renewables division in the IEA) will lecture about emerging technology options, and national and international policies that could foster their development and their deployment.
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Read the Insights Papers: Renewable Energy for Industry
Abstract: The rapid fall in cost of solar and wind power technologies opens a new range of possibilities to decarbonise the global economy and cut carbon emissions from industry. Besides direct renewable heat and electrification, hydrogen-rich chemicals that are easy to store and transport could serve as feedstock, process agents and fuels. They could be produced in areas with abundant and cheap resources, and shipped to consuming centers, opening the prospects to a new kind of international energy trade. This Insights Paper examines emerging technology options, and reviews national and international policies that could foster their development and their deployment.
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Friday Lunch Meeting, Jacques Papy, April 6th 2018
2018-04-06 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
Program: Jacques Papy, Professor of Business Law at the Faculty of Political Science and Law at the Université du Québec at Montréal. His research focuses on various legal aspects of the implementation of the carbon market in Quebec and Canada.

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Jacques Papy will present his current research work on the Western Climate Initiative Carbon Link Agreement signed by California, Ontario and Quebec in September 2017.
In particular, he will address the legal issues of the agreement for Quebec’s GHG cap and trade system as well as its articulation with Canada’s federal carbon pricing program.
Abstract: The global digital transition is accelerating while the ecological transition is only contributing to it, in the best case. This situation will not be sustainable for long. It is important to give ourselves as soon as possible a collective objective which would correspond in the end to what is required by the state of degradation of the Earth system.
How to reconcile a radically reduced ecological footprint with the current plurality of our societies and their economic fabric? The answer is on the side of a permacircular economy: the strict respect of the planetary limits requires, for the rich countries, circular metabolisms, but also a clear reduction of the material substrate of their activities – thus a decrease – and an opening to the the widest possible technological and social experimentation.
This book proposes a detailed political and ethical framework aimed at progressively building, in the respect of modern pluralism, an authentically sustainable economy. Christian Arnsperger is an economist and professor at the University of Lausanne, at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability. He is also a scientific advisor of the Swiss alternative bank. Dominique Bourg is a philosopher and professor at the University of Lausanne.
He co-directed, with Alain Papaux, the Dictionary of Ecological Thought (Puf), and directed the collection “Ecology in Questions” and the online journal Ecological Thought. He also heads the scientific council of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation.

Friday Lunch Meeting, Jean Jouzel and Pierre Larrouturou, April 27th, 2018
2018-04-27 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
Program:
What if preserving our climate was one of the best ways to hold back the next Financial crisis? To save the banks, we put down 1 000 billions. Why not using them to reverse climate change?

Jean Jouzel et Pierre Larrouturou
With this book, climatologist Jean Jouzel and economist Pierre Larrouturou suggest a hands-on European finance-climate agreement, to cut CO2 emissions four-fold, deflate the Financial bubble and create 5 million jobs. The climate machine is dangerously steaming. There is only 3 years left to reverse the greenhouse gas emission’s curve if we want to save the youth from a climate that would be hard, even impossible to adapt to.

Yet, in the same time the world’s debt level is unprecentented, central banks feed speculators and everything seems to announce a crisis worse than 2008. To favor speculation or save the climate? The choice is ours.

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Jean Jouzel has a last-minute imperative and will therefore not be with us at the next FLM. We apologize.

[🇫🇷] Compte rendu du Petit Déjeuner Professionnel sur l’Economie Circulaire du 17 mai 2018
2018-05-17 06:30 - 08:00 UTC
Le Petit Déjeuner Professionnel sur l’économie circulaire, animé par Christian de Perthuis, a permis d’échanger les points de vue des acteurs économiques et institutionnels:
– Industriels (Sébastien Ricard pour PAPREC, Daniel Dunet pour Veolia, Romain Ferrari pour la Fondation 2019) ;
– Juridique (Patricia Savin pour DS-Avocats et ORÉE) ;
– Institutionnels (Cyrille Martin pour FEDEREC, Jean-Charles Caudron pour l’ADEME) ;
– Académique (Philippe Delacote pour l’INRA et la Chaire Économie du Climat).

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Dominique Bourg, June 1st 2018
2018-06-01 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
Program:
Dominique Bourg, Professor at the University of Lausanne, Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD), Faculty of Geosciences and Environment. He will present his book Integral Ecology: For a Permacircular Society

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Summary:
The global digital transition is accelerating as the ecological transition, at best, is stalling. This situation will not be sustainable for long. It is important to give ourselves as soon as possible a collective goal that corresponds finally to what is required by the state of degradation of the Earth system.
How to reconcile a radically reduced ecological footprint with the current plurality of our societies and their economic fabric? The answer is on the side of a permacircular economy: the strict respect of the planetary limits requires, for the rich countries, circular metabolisms, but also a clear reduction of the material substrate of their activities – thus a decrease – and an opening to the the widest possible technological and social experimentation.
This book proposes a detailed political and ethical framework aimed at progressively building, in the respect of modern pluralism, an authentically sustainable economy.
Christian Arnsperger is an economist and professor at the University of Lausanne, at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability. He is also scientific advisor of the Swiss alternative bank.
Dominique Bourg is a philosopher and professor at the University of Lausanne. He co-directed, with Alain Papaux, the Dictionary of Ecological Thought (Puf), and directed the collection “Ecology in Questions” and the online journal Ecological Thought. He also chairs the scientific council of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation.
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Friday Lunch Meeting, Olivier David Zerbib, June 8th 2018
2018-06-08 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Program:

Olivier David Zerbib is a doctoral student in finance at the University of Tilburg and ISFA and head of financial research at I Care & Consult. His doctorate focuses in particular on the issues of asset valuation in sustainable and environmental finance.

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Is There a Green Bond Premium? The yield differential between green and conventional bonds

Summary:
The article examines the yield (or the cost of financing, seen from the perspective of the issuer) of the green bonds. We use a matching method, followed by a two-step regression, to estimate the yield differential between a green bond and a synthetic bond in exactly the same way, between July 2013 and December 2017.
The yield on green bonds is on average 2 basis points lower than that of a conventional secondary market bond for the total sample, as well as for bonds issued in Euro and US Dollars.
We show that the main determinants of this premium are the credit rating of the issuer and the type of issuer: the negative premium is even more pronounced for bonds issued by financial institutions and for bonds with a low rating. . The results thus suggest an investor preference for green bonds which results in a slight emission deficiency compared to demand in several market segments.
Regulatory measures could therefore help to fuel the flow of green bond issuance and thus support the financing of environmental transition.

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[🇫🇷] Compte rendu du Petit Déjeuner Professionnel sur la nouvelle PPE pour la France : Quels objectifs et quelle gouvernance?
2018-06-22 06:30 - 08:00 UTC
Le Petit Déjeuner Professionnel sur la nouvelle PPE pour la France : Quels objectifs et quelle gouvernance?, animé par Jacques Percebois, a permis d’échanger les points de vue d’acteurs économiques et institutionnels : Jean-Louis Bal (Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables), Michel Derdevet (Enedis), Laurent Joudon (EDF), Matthieu Orphelin (Député du Maine et Loire) et Gilles Vermot Desroches (Schneider Electric).
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The possible outcomes of carbon price floor initiatives in Europe
2018-07-04 14:30 - 16:30 UTC
Following the Conference on Wednesday July 4th organised by the Chair, in partnership with the Association of Energy Economists, The possible outcomes of carbon price floor initiatives in Europe
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When is a carbon price floor desirable? Robert A. Ritz
National policies complementary to EU ETS – Assessmentof unilateral and multilateral options
Corjan Brink
With : Ozge Ozdemir, Marit van Hout, Paul Koutstaal, Jos Notenboom
EU ETS Reform : “Partial” carbon price floor (s) and the market stability reserve Simon Quemin and Raphaël Trotignon

Friday Lunch Meeting, Christian de Perthuis and Boris Solier, September 14th 2018
2018-09-14 10:30 - 12:00 UTC
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Article presentationLa transition énergétique face au tempo de l’horloge climatique by Christian de Perthuis, respectively Professor at Paris-Dauphine University – CEC’s founder and and Boris Solier, Assistant Professor at Montpellier University – Co manager of the CEC Energy Transition program will introduce their article

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Mouez Fodha, September 21st 2018
2018-09-21 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | Palais Brongniart (4e étage), 28 Place de la Bourse, Paris, 75002, France
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Mouez Fodha (PSE, Université Paris 1) will lecture about his soon published article: « Environmental Tax Reform under debt constraint »

Abstract
This article analyzes the impacts of Environmental Tax Reform (ETR) when the government is constrained not to increase the public debt-to-output ratio.
We consider an overlapping generations model with pollution. Public spending for pollution abatement are …nanced by tax revenues and public debt. We show that keeping constant the public debt-output ratio is not an obstacle to attain a double dividend, i.e. an increase of both (i) environmental quality and (ii) aggregate consumption.
First, if the capital stock is low and the pollution abatement is large enough, a successful ETR consists in a rise of the environmental tax, compensated by a decrease of the income tax. Secondly, we show that the environmental tax revenues may help reduce the public debt-output ratio. We give conditions (on the initial level of the environmental tax and the debt-output ratio) such that an increase of the environmental tax, budget-balanced by a decrease of the debt-output ratio may also achieve a double dividend.
We conclude that public debt crisis should not compromise ETR, instead, environmental tax revenues could be part of the solution.

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Chair's Annual Conference "Energy, Climate and Development"
2018-10-03
The Climate Economics Chair is organizing its annual conference on October 4th, 2018 at University Paris-Dauphine on the topics of
ENERGY, CLIMATE and DEVELOPMENT

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Associated journals : Two Special Issues in Environment and Development Economics and Energy Economics

Friday Lunch Meeting, Elena Verdolini, 16th of November 2018
2018-11-16 11:30 - 13:30 UTC
Elena Verdolini (European Institute on Economics and the Environment :EIEE) will present the following article: “Threshold Policy Effects and Directed Technical Change in Energy Innovation”, co-written with Lionel Nesta and Francesco Vona.

Résumé

The presentation will be done in English.
This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over the period 1990-2012. Our novelty is to use threshold regression models to allow for discontinuities in policy effectiveness depending on a country’s relative competencies in renewable and fossil fuel technologies. We show that the dynamic incentives of environmental policies become effective just above the median level of relative competencies. In this critical second regime, market-based policies are moderately effective in promoting renewable innovation, while commandand-control policies depress fossil based innovation. Finally, market-based policies are more effective to consolidate a green comparative advantage in the last regime. We illustrate how our approach can be used for policy design in laggard countries.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Mohamed Akli Achabou et Sihem Dekhili, 30th of november 2018
2018-11-30 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Mohamed Akli Achabou (Research Professor in Strategy at IPAG Business School ) & Sihem Dekhili (Professor of Marketing at the University of Strasbourg – EM business school) will lecture about the paradox between luxury and sustainable development.

Abstract

Although a real “era of sustainable development” seems to prevail in Western societies, not all categories of products / services are necessarily concerned. This is particularly the case of the luxury sector, whose universe seems remote from that of sustainable development. Our various studies show that engaging in an eco-responsible approach does not allow luxury companies to promote their offers in the eyes of consumers, and may even pose a risk to the perception that they may have of the quality of their products. ecological luxury. In this sense, examining the sources of dissonance between luxury and sustainable development is an interesting avenue to explore. The results of our research on the subject make it possible to group them around three aspects: the dimensions of the concept (sharing, quality, rationality, altruism), the environmental aspect (preservation of the resources), and the social aspect (social equality, justice in the level of employment, animal welfare). Our results also make it possible to specify the ways of reducing dissonance adopted by consumers, and then to propose recommendations to companies.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Stéphane Gloriant, 11th of january 2019
2019-01-11 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
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 acceleration should accelerate, at least as far as the rate is concerned, calling for a first assessment of its actual effects. This is what this Information & Debates proposes, concentrating the evaluation on the sectors most concerned. Evaluating the impact of the tax is not just about comparing emissions before and after coming into force. This requires comparing the emissions observed over the period with the evolution of a “counterfactual” scenario representing the hypothetical trajectory that emissions would have followed in its absence.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Yves Marignac, 18th of January
2019-01-18 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
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 of our dependence on fossil fuels by 2050. The new Negawatt Association’s scenario confirms that the “100% renewable” is possible from 2050.

Abstract

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 of our dependence on fossil fuels by 2050. The new Negawatt Association’s scenario confirms that the “100% renewable” is possible from 2050.

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Universal Access to Energy - Back to the professional breakfast
2019-01-25 07:30 - 09:00 UTC | 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 these topics.
The welcome was provided by Gilles Vermot Desroches (Director of Sustainable Development at Schneider Electric), followed by interventions from Anna Creti and Jean-Pierre-Ponsard, then works presentations by Arthur Contejean and Ahmed Tritah, and at the end a discussion on priority research issues.
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Friday Lunch Meeting, Thomas Douenne, 25th of january 2019
2019-01-25 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
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 policy is regressive, but could be made progressive by redistributing the revenue through a flat-recycling. However, it would still generate large horizontal distributive effects and harm an important share of low-income households. The determinants of the tax incidence are characterized precisely, and alternative targeted transfers are simulated on this basis. The paper shows that given the importance of unobserved heterogeneity in the determinants of energy consumption, horizontal distributive effects are much more difficult to tackle than vertical ones.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Clément Bonnet, 1st of February
2019-02-01 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
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 to establish to what extent the available quantity of copper and the development of the industry can be a risk factor for the low-carbon transition. The starting point of this analysis is the following observation: at service rendered equivalent low-carbon technologies consume more copper than conventional technologies. In view of the magnitude of the technological changes in the transport and electricity production sectors that the energy transition requires, the analysis conducted in this article focuses on these two sectors. The research question aims to know the quantity of copper consumed by 2050 due to the decarbonisation of the transport and electricity production sectors. On the basis of this result, we assess the impact on copper resources of two public policy options. The first is that of a gentler mobility. We compare a “high mobility” scenario to a “low mobility” scenario. These two scenarios are distinguished by the assumptions made on urban sprawl, the nature of urban coverage and the levels of demand for different types of vehicles according to their technical and environmental characteristics. The second public policy option evaluated is the development of the copper recycling sector. To do this, we quantify the impact of recycling on the availability of copper and highlight the fact that recycling helps to reduce the pressure on the supply side and thus reduces the risk of production bottlenecks.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Olivier Massol, 22th of february 2019
2019-02-22 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
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 the effects of the recently decided rapid phase out of the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve (FHR), a vast strategic stockpile accumulated during the 1960s. The model incorporates a detailed representation of that industry and treats both helium producers and the FHR as players in a dynamic non-cooperative game. The goal of each player is assumed to be the maximization of discounted profit, subject to technical and resource constraints. We consider two alternative policies aimed at organizing the phase out of the FHR: the currently implemented one and a less stringent one whereby the FHR would be allowed to operate as a profit-maximizing agent during an extended period of time. Evidences gained from a series of market simulations indicate that, compared to the current policy, a less stringent policy mandate systematically increases the financial return to the U.S. federal budget, always enhances environmental outcomes as it lowers helium venting into the atmosphere, and also augments global welfare in three out of the four scenarios considered in the paper.

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[🇫🇷] 50 ans de Dauphine - Conférence : La neutralité carbone à quel horizon ?
2019-03-14 13:00 - 16:45 UTC | Université Paris Dauphine
Jeudi 14 mars de 14h00 à 17h45 – Université Paris- Dauphine – Salle Raymond ARON
#50ans #makeourfuturehappen #ObjectifBasCarbone
INSCRIPTION
Malgré les alertes de la communauté scientifique, de multiples inerties persistent qui freinent la mise en mouvement des sociétés.
Comment faire passer les bons messages sur le climat ? Agiter la catastrophe qui vient, au risque de paralyser l’action ? Vanter les bénéfices d’une société neutre en carbone qui parviendrait à enrayer le réchauffement ?
Ces questions ne concernent pas que les spécialistes, mais tous les citoyens et l’ensemble de notre communauté dauphinoise.
Dans le cadre des 50 ans de Dauphine, la Chaire Economie du Climat et l’équipe de la Responsabilité Sociale de l’université (RSU) vous proposent de venir débattre de ces questions, lors de deux sessions interactives :
PROGRAMME
14h-14h10 Introduction : Jean Jouzel (Président du conseil d’orientation de la Chaire)
Session 1 animée par Anna Creti, Directrice scientifique de la Chaire :
Les messages du GIEC : quels impacts sur la société ?
14h10 – 14h45 : dialogue avec Valérie Masson Delmotte (IPSL-GIEC) : l’état des connaissances scientifiques et leurs impacts sur la société (Questions/Réponses avec des Dauphinois)
14h45 – 15h 45 : Table ronde « d’experts » : le rôle de l’expertise dans la transition bas carbone
Amy Dahan (CNRS)
Thomas Sterner (University of Gothenburg)
15h45 – 16h10 : Pause
Session 2 animée par Christian de Perthuis, Fondateur de la Chaire :
Au-delà de l’expertise, comment communiquer pour mieux agir ?
16h10 – 17h00 : Table ronde des grands témoins
Catherine Chabaud, journaliste/navigatrice
Isabelle Delannoy, Dirigeante fondatrice DO Green
Erik Orsenna, écrivain
17h00 – 17h30 : interactions avec les Dauphinois et la salle
Conclusion de la conférence :
17h30 Isabelle Huault Présidente de Dauphine
Inauguration de l’exposition de photos sur les impacts du changement climatique préparée par Stéphanie Monjon en collaboration avec le National Geographic.

Friday Lunch Meeting, Philippe Zaouati, 15th of March 2019
2019-03-15 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Philippe Zaouati President of Finance for Tomorrow and Managing Director of Mirova, presents his report Canfin-Zaouati: a French-style green Juncker plan written with Pascal Canfin, Executive Director of WWF France.
Link to the document: https://financefortomorrow.com/2018/12/18/rapport-canfin-zaouati/

Abstract

During the summer of 2018, Nicolas HULOT, Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, and Bruno LE MAIRE, Minister of Economy and Finance, entrusted Pascal CANFIN, former Minister of Development and Director of the Foundation WWF France, and Philippe ZAOUATI, President of Finance for Tomorrow and General Manager Mirova, producing a report to study the usefulness of risk-sharing financial instruments in the context of financing the French transition to the carbon neutrality, in connection with the reflections led around the Climate Finance Day of November 2018.
For a successful transition, the challenge is “to invest more, but more importantly to invest better”. Since public funding alone is not enough to meet this challenge, the challenge for public action is to bring about a massive reorientation of private flows. In addition to proposals to change the regulatory or fiscal framework, the government is interested in the role that innovative financial risk-sharing mechanisms could play in maximizing the leverage effect of public funds.
In this context, the mission aims to produce recommendations for the implementation of financial instruments in which public money is used as a risk-sharing tool, in order to increase the involvement of private investors in the financing of transition sectors facing an investment deficit such as their development remains insufficient to meet public policy objectives.
From this roadmap, this report:
 examines issues related to the use of public financial instruments for TE (I)
 establishes an overview of financial instruments developed at French and European level (II)
 assesses the extent to which they could respond to under-investment situations in certain critical sectors in France in order to succeed in their TE (III)
 formulates concrete observations and recommendations to begin the transition to the scale of the French TE through the use of risk-sharing financial instruments (synthesis and recommendations).
The report takes into account, in its recommendations for the use of financial instruments, comprehensive public risk management policies that are or could be deployed (regulation, taxation, support to the structuring of value chains, etc.), accounting and budgetary issues, the need to better mobilize existing programs, particularly at European level, while limiting the risks of moral hazard.

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Friday Lunch Meeting, Pierre-Alain Jayet, 22th of March 2019
2019-03-22 11:30 - 13:00 UTC
Pierre-Alain Jayet (INRA) presents «Revising the hierarchy of geographical impacts in response to climate change and water prices: a prospective approach to French agriculture»

Abstract

Pressures on resources and climate change are likely to strongly impact the availability of water. Agricultural systems are directly affected by the scarcity of water for irrigation. To estimate these impacts, we develop a prospective approach combining an agro-economic model and a crop model. Applied to a large part of the French agricultural sector, this work extends previous analyses in which water was excluded from the core of the analysis. Three contrasting climate scenarios were used over the long-term period 2010-2100. Results indicate that potential change in water demand would differ strongly according to the region concerned and the scenario applied. In France as a whole, irrigation increases in all scenarios. The largest increase, of 60% under the intermediate scenario, and significant increases, of 40% under the smoothest scenario and of 20% under the toughest scenario, occur between 2010 and 2100. Differentiating the northern and southern regions, the relative increase is more marked in the north, while southern demand significantly increases under the intermediate scenario and decreases under the toughest scenario. When considering autonomous adaptation of farming systems to climate change, agricultural income in northern regions is likely to be negatively affected to a greater extent than in southern regions.

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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…)
