CO2 Price and Low-carbon Innovation

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Carbon pricing through tax, market or hybrid systems

  • Monitoring the functioning and modeling of the European carbon market (Zephyr model)
  • The introduction of carbon taxes in the world
  • Hybrid pricing systems: price corridor / quantity corridor etc.
  • Future of project mechanisms and carbon offsets (CORSIA)

Governance and coordination of regulatory instruments

  • Interactions between different economic tools of climate energy policies
  • The coordination of different carbon pricing systems within a country or in the world, linking between carbon markets
  • International Climate Negotiations and the Paris Agreement Follow-up

The internal price of carbon for firms, a tool at the border of the economy and management

  • Historical perspective, conceptual and practical heterogeneities
  • The internal price of carbon as a new form of voluntary approach
  • The internal price of carbon as a new type of management tool
  • Sociological analysis of the management of the internal price of carbon

Low-carbon innovation: specificities and strategies associated with the creation of "green" knowledge

  • Learning effects and how to overcome barriers to the adoption of low carbon technologies
  • The specificities of low carbon innovation in terms of the link between open innovation and patents
  • Monitoring and measuring low carbon innovation using patent data

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Agriculture and Forestry

This research program analyzes the conditions of use of economic instruments dedicated to climate change issues in the agricultural and forestry sectors. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms of REDD + and the competition for biomass use.

Our research topics

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Eco-system services and climate policies
• Barriers to GES emissions mitigation in agriculture and forests
• Impact of climate policies on the provision of eco-system services
• Climate impacts of food
Adaptation and Mitigation policies in the agricultural and forest systems
• Weather shocks, adaptation strategies ans socio-economic and environmental feedback
• Climate and energy policies impact on adaptation behaviours
• The role of risk and insurance on adaptation behaviours and mitigation practices
Circular Economy : resource use and waste management
• Trade-offs and synergies between GES emissions, resource use and waste management
• Impact of climate policies on recycling and waste management
• Use and combination of virgin and recycled raw materials

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Energy Transitions

This research program aims at analyzing the provisions and potential impacts of climate-energy policies in three main research topics: integration of renewables in electricity and gas sectors; pricing mechanisms, consumer behaviors and new energy uses; spatial equity and redistribution.

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Integration of renewables in electricity and gas sectors

  • Incentive effects of support mechanisms for renewable energy
  • Impacts of renewable energy deployment on both electricity and gas markets and networks
  • Consistency between objectives and instruments of climate-energy policies

 Pricing mechanisms, consumer behaviors and new energy uses

  • Pricing mechanisms for gas and electricity
  • Price elasticity of energy demand and potential for energy efficiency
  • New uses of gas and electricity

 Energy efficiency and building

  • Thermal renovation and real-estate assets value;
  • Analysis of existing barriers to thermal renovation;
  • Introduction of «performance guarantee » mechanisms.

Access to energy in Africa

  • Financial, behavioral, institutional and regulatory impediments to energy access
  • Roads from energy to development - Causal mechanisms and constraints
  • Regulatory framework and business models to reach universal access

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