Les publications de la Chaire

Higher cost of finance exacerbates a climate investment trap in developing economies

2021
Auteurs :
Nadia Ameli, Olivier Dessens, Matthew Winning, Jennifer Cronin, Hugues Chenet, Paul Drummond, Alvaro Calzadilla, Gabrial Anandarajah and Michael Grubb

Finance is vital for the green energy transition, but access to low cost finance is uneven as the cost of capital differs substantially between regions. This study shows how modelled decarbonisation pathways for developing economies are disproportionately impacted by different weighted average cost of capital (WACC) assumptions.

A practical approach for curbing congestion and air pollution: Driving restrictions with toll and vintage exemptions

2021
Auteurs :
Leonardo Basso, Juan-Pablo Montero, and Felipe Sepulveda

Article published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Congestion and local air pollution continue to be a serious problem in many cities around...  

Comprendre le succès du crowdfunding dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables

2021
Auteurs :
Sandra Rigot, Cécile Cézanne, Clémence Bourcet

La transition énergétique implique des investissements à long terme que le système financier traditionnel n’est peut-être pas en mesure d’assumer seul. C’est dans ce contexte que de nouveaux acteurs privés sont nés. Parmi eux, les plates-formes de financement participatif. En France, le crowdfunding d’énergies renouvelables (EnR) a connu une forte croissance grâce notamment à un cadre réglementaire...

Who emits CO2? Landscape of ecological inequalities in France from a critical perspective

2021
Auteurs :
Antonin Pottier, Emmanuel Combet, Jean-Michel Cayla, Simona de Lauretis, and Franck Nadaud

This article provides a panorama of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inequalities between French households. It presents in a detailed and critical manner the methodological...  

Finance and climate science: worlds apart?

2021
Auteurs :
Vincent Bouchet, Hugo Dayan et Camille Contoux

Through a compared analysis of the perception and management of climate risks by financial risk managers and climate scientists, this article seeks to understand how different risk perceptions can be an obstacle to collaboration between these two social groups.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Renewable Energy Crowdfunding : An Assessment and Policy Proposals

2021
Auteurs :
Sandra Rigot, Cécile Cézanne, Laurence Saglietto

Cet article vise à contribuer à la littérature en proposant une analyse bibliométrique des travaux académiques existants sur l’importance et l’évolution du crowdfunding d’énergies renouvelables

Interrogations sur endettement public et politique monétaire

2021
Auteurs :
Jacques Mazier, Luis Reyes

Malgré des niveaux d’endettement public élevés la soutenabilité de la dette publique à court-moyen terme ne pose pas de problème en raison des niveaux...  

Finance, climate-change and radical uncertainty: Towards a precautionary approach to financial policy

2021
Auteurs :
Hugues Chenet, Josh Ryan-Collins, Frank van Lerven

The article presents a ‘precautionary’ financial policy approach to deal with Climate-related financial risks instead of the current framework which largely focuses on market-based solutions

Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications

2021
Auteurs :
Paul E. Brockway, Steve Sorrell, Gregor Semieniuk, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Victor Court,

This paper explores in which proportion the economy-wide rebound could erode expected energy savings from improved energy efficiency.

Relocation in presence of polluting and heterogeneous technologies

2020
Auteurs :
Julie Ing and Jean-Philippe Nicolaï

This paper demonstrates that the offshoring of a dirty firm as compared to the offshoring of a clean firm is worse for the environment, better for northern consumers, and better for the domestic profits. The results are reversed in case of reshoring.