Les publications de la Chaire

Governance Arrangements for Local Sustainable Business Models: The Case of Local Energy Systems

2024
Auteurs :
Johanna Ayrault, Farah Doumit, Franck Aggeri

Despite extensive research on sustainable business models and the development of various tools to facilitate their implementation, barriers persist particularly concerning the governance of a local ecosystem of actors. We identify that a facilitating public policy framework combined with internal institutional, strategic and operational drivers linked to the governance of local ecosystems is crucial...

Les modèles IAMs et leurs limites

2024
Auteurs :
Alain Grandjean

Cette note a pour but de présenter de manière synthétique les modèles mathématiques utilisés aujourd’hui par la communauté des économistes du climat et leurs limites. Ces modèles sont utilisés à la fois pour dimensionner les mesures à prendre pour limiter le changement climatique et pour évaluer les impacts du changement climatique sur le système...

Sustainable economic policies: exploring the effects of sustainability-linked money creation

2024
Auteurs :
Augustin Sersiron, Jézabel Couppey Soubeyran, Thomas Lagoarde-Ségot

This paper explores the potential contribution of Sustainability-linked Money Creation (SMC) to sustainable economic policies. Our simulations suggest that, in comparison to a baseline scenario, SMC issues could potentially constitute an anti-inflationary, counter-cyclical green transition policy, that increases biomimetic resilience and contains income and wealth inequalities. We finally discuss the policy implications, as well...

Agricultural Productivity Growth and Deforestation in the Tropics

2024
Auteurs :
Mathieu Couttenier, Sebastien Desbureaux, Raphael Soubeyran

We analyze the impact of agricultural productivity growth on tropical deforestation. Our dynamic model of forest-to-farmland, addressing the Jevons’ paradox and Borlaug hypothesis, predicts that rising agricultural productivity, reflected by declining fertilizer price growth, has an ambiguous effect on deforestation. Using tropical forest loss data (2000-2022) and fertilizer price variations, we find a negative...

Economic rationality, ecological rationality and the orientation issue

2023
Auteurs :
Hadrien Lantremange

The economic agent was previously assumed to be distinct from its environment and that nothing was forcing him to act on it. With the ecological crisis, every agent appears to be inserted into an environment, which he modifies in an irreversible way without even having decided to do so. This changes in depth the...

Pricing Congestion to Increase Traffic: The Case of Bogotá

2024
Auteurs :
Juan-Pablo Montero, Felipe Sepúlveda, Leonardo J. Basso

In September 2020, the city of Bogotá introduced a major market-based reform to its odd-even driving restriction. The big winners of the reform are middle-income individuals who now use their cars more often, whereas the big losers are high-income individuals who now spend more time in traffic.

Réinventer la planification à l’heure de la transition écologique

2023
Auteurs :
Dominique Plihon

Cette note tente de définir les contours de la planification écologique nécessaire en s’appuyant notamment sur les expériences passées et récentes. Seront successivement analysés (1) les obstacles à la transition écologique qu’il convient de surmonter, (2) les leçons des expériences de planification passées et récentes et (3) les pistes permettant de réinventer la planification française pour promouvoir la...

L’exil terrestre et la vie négligée. Quelques enseignements à tirer pour l’économie de l’inaction écologique

2023
Auteurs :
Hadrien Lantremange

Il n’est pas certain que l’expérience terrestre soit heureuse, comme il n’est pas certain que les hommes aient le désir de la faire durer. Il se pourrait ainsi que la répugnance à la condition terrestre soit la première raison de l’inaction écologique.

Do French firms follow a transparent or climate-friendly path?

2021
Auteurs :
Jeanne Amar, Samira Demaria, Sandra Rigot

Our analysis of the Climate Risks and Opportunities Index (CRORI) and the CDP climate score reveal a parallel improvement of these indices with different sectoral disparities over the 2015–2019 period. While our results are encouraging, they need to be put into perspective because these firms are still far from being carbon neutral.

Mineral Resources and the Salience of Ethnic Identities

2023
Auteurs :
Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier, Victoire Girard

Our findings suggest a new dimension of the natural resource curse: the fragmentation of identities, between ethnic groups and nations.