Publications of the Chair

Energy Poverty has a justice dimension: comparing Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, and France

2024
Authors :
Anna Creti, Alpha Ly et Maria-Eugenia Sanin.

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...

Ecological policy mix: the SDSN France report

2025
Authors :
Aubert, N., Couppey-Soubeyran, J., Didier, R., Dufrêne, N., Hollandts, X., Lagoarde-Ségot, 1 T., Le Quang, G., Le Poder, L., Massa, I., Mathieu, A., Peters, A., Ponsot, J.F., Revelli, C., Scialom, L., Sersiron, A., Toure, S., Van Weeren, M.

The report attempts to respond to the UN Secretary-General's recent call for "innovative approaches and bold policy decisions" to tackle the SDGs (UN, 2023). It attributes the existing finance gap to the unrealistic assumptions of the dominant macroeconomic paradigm, which it proposes to replace with new assumptions that are better able to address the...

What policy mix for the ecological transition?

2024
Authors :
Esther Jeffers, Dominique Plihon

This article looks at how to make fiscal, monetary and prudential policies greener in order to address the massive financing needs and major risks associated with climate change.

Starting with the observation, based on the recent experience of the financial and health crises, that the separate and independent implementation of monetary and fiscal policies undermines...

Subsidies and rebound effect with incomplete carbon pricing: an application to biogas

2024
Authors :
Victor Besnier, Guy Meunier

Bioenergies from dedicated crops or wood have faced substantial criticisms due to their significant land requirements. Certain bioenergy pathways, such as biogas generated from crop residues, manure, or food waste, appear to be exempt from this criticism. However, these feedstocks are byproducts of agricultural activities that generate emissions not covered by current climate policies in...

Long-term sustainability of zero-growth capitalism: activity, employment and unemployment according to different modes of income distribution

2024
Authors :
Laurent Cordonnier, Jacques Mazier

This paper studies the long-term consequences of a zero-growth regime on the evolution of employment and unemployment, depending on the assumptions we can make concerning the evolution of the working population, labor productivity and working hours. These consequences are examined through three scenarios. This leads us to conclude that the goal...

Les pratiques de mobilite des Francais

2024
Authors :
Aurélien Bigo

Les pratiques de mobilité des Français. Graphiques de novembre 2024 issus d’une analyse avec Fabien Perez (SDES) à partir des données de l’enquête mobilité des personnes (EMP) de 2019. 

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

2024
Authors :
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
Authors :
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
Authors :
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...

Sustainable economic policies: exploring the effects of ecosystemic macroprudential regulations

2024
Authors :
Thomas Lagoarde-Ségot, Gaëtan Le Quang , Laurence Scialom,

This paper explores the contribution of ecosystemic macroprudential regulations to the sustainable development goals in an ecological PK-SFC framework. The results highlight the importance of a paradigm shift in prudential regulation in the fight against climate change.