Using a two-stage least squares estimator for a panel of 165 countries from 2000 to 2023, the paper shows that lower wealth inequality decreases land use change emissions. The effect is most pronounced when inequality is measured by the top 10% wealth share and in developing countries, where land use change emissions constitute the majority...
The concurrent surge in fuel, food, and fertilizer prices underscores the broad vulnerability of agrifood system in an interconnected global economy, where supply chain disruptions can propagate rapidly. It also highlights the urgent need for a deeper understanding of the short-and long-term drivers of the price of the world's most widely used nitrogen fertilizer:...
Since 2015 the European Union has positioned itself as global leader in the ecological transition, placing the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050 at the heart of its economic and financial agenda. This article examines the role of public banks, particularly the European Investment Bank (EIB), in structuring the financing of the green transition.
This randomized controlled trial investigates how to accelerate the transition to the cleanest cooking fuel, electricity, and quantifies the benefits for people and the environment.
Historical contributions of carbon emissions differ widely between nations, constraining climate change negotiations. Cumulative country estimates ignore historical populations, overstating the role of large-population countries. In this paper, we present a global accounting framework. Adding CO2 emissions from land use change radically reshapes the map, moving Brazil from the world’s 8th largest creditor to...
This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of inequality and CO2 emissions using panel data on 156 countries from 1995 to 2020. These findings call for international cooperation, structural changes and social protection policies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of joint inequality and carbon emission reduction.
Greater economic inequalities increase environmental degradation in most cases. Building on evidence from 136 studies and 406 empirical tests between 1998 and 2022, we construct a database enabling an in-depth analysis of the literature. Our main findings are threefold.
We exploit new data on NGO campaigns that target banks financing fossil fuels ("brown'' banks) to build a measure of French banks' environmental reputation, which we merge with granular data on bank deposits and loans of households in France over 2010-2020. We find that banks receive relatively fewer household deposits when they are perceived...
Through this paper, Guy Meunier characterizes how biodiversity concerns reshape the efficient allocation of land exploitation as a function of damage curvature and food-demand elasticity. Overall, the analysis highlights the role of indirect production reallocation and market-mediated feedbacks in biodiversity-oriented agricultural policy.
This study examines the impact of climate aid on deforestation in Africa from 2001 to 2021, using a novel dataset of geocoded aid projects. The effects are heterogeneous and vary by initial forest cover: aid increases deforestation in densely forested areas, while it appears to reduce deforestation where forest cover was initially sparse.
Ce workshop s'adresse particulièrement aux chercheurs et chercheuses. En présence de Véronica Salazar (IIE, Stockholm), Anna Papp (MIT), Ludovica Gazze (Warwick), Ondine Berland (LSE), Anouch Missirian (INRAE, TSE), Mathieu Parenti (INRAE, PSE), François Bareille (INRAE, PSAE) et Julien Wolfersberger (AgroParisTech, PSAE).
Séminaire organisé par la chaire Energie et Prospérité Quelle politique publique pour la décarbonation des sites industriels ? Réflexions à partir du cas du...
