Four in five people without access to electricity live in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mini-grids are seen as a key solution. Yet investment remains constrained by low and unpredictable demand, especially in fragile settings. We study electricity demand in North Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo), using pre-grid census and survey data combined with six years of post-connection consumption records.
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 the 3rd largest debtor. Yet, it does not change the position of the US, China and India.
Quinze spécialistes, issus des grandes écoles et universités françaises, ont contribué à la rédaction du manuel, dans le cadre d’un groupe de travail bénévole du Sustainable Development Solutions Network des Nations Unies.This textbook, written by fifteen economists from the SDSN France network, provides an accessible introduction to ecological economics and finance.
The energy transition is a worldwide endeavor that most countries have come to acknowledge, thanks to the work of scientists all over the world. The use of fossil fuels in our energy-intensive economies for the past centuries has dramatically increased global warming (+1.5 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times), and public policies play a key role in the fight against this highly alarming trend. This dissertation focuses on three aspects of the economics of energy transition
Energy poverty is a multidimensional issue, as demonstrated by a comparison between two low-income countries, Bolivia (BOL) and Côte d’Ivoire (CIV), and a high-income European country, France (FRA). These three countries represent different stages of access and energy poverty. The findings highlight the importance of considering affordability in efforts to ensure universal energy access, to prevent further exclusion and promote energy justice.
Cette thèse analyse l’évolution de la finance solidaire en France à travers l’essor des fonds d’investissement solidaires. Elle met en lumière les tensions entre logique financière et l’objectif solidaire initial, en s’appuyant sur trois cas.
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.
Cette thèse s’intéresse à la régulation des externalités environnementales liées à la production et la consommation de viande. Elle vise à la fois à proposer des instruments de second rang lorsque les politiques pigouviennes ne peuvent pas être mises en place par le régulateur, et à comprendre comment mobiliser les normes morales et sociales pour faire évoluer le comportement des consommateurs.
This dissertation investigates the economic competition among green technologies in the context of the energy transition, with a particular focus on low-carbon hydrogen. Beyond the classic “grey-to-green” paradigm that models cleaner technologies replacing fossil-fuel-based alternatives, this work emphasizes the increasingly relevant competition within green technologies.
