La transition écologique n’est pas toujours une affaire rentable ni porteuse de croissance. Et elle risque de l’être de moins en moins à mesure que nos modes de vie vont changer et nos besoins de consommation baisser. Les implications financières en seront profondes, écrivent Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran, directrice scientifique de la Chaire Énergie et Prospérité, et Wojtek Kalinowski de l’Institut Veblen, dans Alternatives Économiques.
Understanding the mechanisms of deforestation is necessary in order to slow or arrest its progress. To accomplish this requires rigorously estimating the demand for deforestation. We contribute to this endeavor by estimating the effect of crop prices on the demand for conversion of land from forest to agriculture in the tropics during the 21st century.
The present paper addresses the issue of sectoral policy coordination, especially when Pigovian carbon pricing is unavailable. It analyzes the optimal allocation of mitigation effort among two vertically connected sectors, an upstream (e.g. electricity) and a downstream (e.g. transportation) one.
