Publications associées à Economics of climate change mitigation

European Economic impacts of cutting energy imports from Russia: A computable general equilibrium analysis

The recent economic sanctions against Russia can jeopardise the sustainability of the European Union's (EU) energy supply. Despite the EU's strong commitment to stringent abatement targets, fossil fuels still play a significant role in the EU energy policy ...

ELSEVIER2022

From COP21 pledges to a fair 2°C pathway

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

At COP21, about 160 countries proposed the so-called INDCs that define GHG abatement objectives by 2030. While encouraging, these commitments are not ambitious enough to achieve the 2°C threshold by 2100, and further negotiations are needed for sharing the ...

2018

A Robust Noncooperative Meta-Game for Climate Negotiation in Europe

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

In this paper we define and solve a ‘robust game design’ problem that could be used to assess the fair sharing of the abatement burden among the 28 EU countries in their coming climate negotiations. The problem consists in finding a distribution of a globa ...

Birkhauser Boston2016

A strategic energy technology policy towards 2050: no-regret strategies for European technology push

Matthias Finger

As current policy frameworks are expiring in 2020, the EU is revisiting its energy technology policy for the post-2020 horizon. The main long-run objective for energy technology policy is to foster the achievement of ambitious EU goals for decarbonisation ...

2013

A strategic energy technology policy towards 2050 : no-regret strategies for European technology push

Matthias Finger

As current policy frameworks are expiring in 2020, the EU is revisiting its energy technology policy for the post-2020 horizon. The main long-run objective for energy technology policy is to foster the achievement of ambitious EU goals for decarbonisation ...

2013

A Robust Meta-Game for Climate Negotiations

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

This paper deals with an application of the robust equilibrium concept in game theory to the assessment of the possible international agreement on climate that could be achieved in the conference of the parties negotiations organized by the UNFCCC. It is s ...

Springer Verlag2013

Integrated Assessment of Swiss GHG Mitigation Policies After 2012

Marc Vielle, André Sceia, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

The residential sector presents a great potential for greenhouse gases (GHG) mitigation. We perform an integrated assessment of different mitigation policies for Switzerland focusing on the residential sector. We analyze the case of pure incentive taxes an ...

Springer Netherlands2012

A game of international climate policy solved by a homogeneous oracle-based method for variational inequalities

Marc Vielle, Alain Haurie

This paper presents a game-theoretic model for the international negotiations that should take place to renew or extend the Kyoto protocol beyond 2012. These negotiations should lead to a self-enforcing agreement on a burden sharing scheme to realize the n ...

2011

Assessment of European Union transition scenarios with a special focus on the issue of carbon leakage

Marc Vielle, Alain Bernard

This paper uses the model GEMINI-E3 to simulate and assess the transition scenario to 2020 framed by the European Union in its “Energy–Climate” Directive, and it raises several issues in this connection. After a brief description of the model, the paper pr ...

Elsevier2009

A two-level dynamic game of carbon emission trading between Russia, China, and Annex B countries

Marc Vielle, Alain Haurie, Alain Bernard

This paper proposes a computable dynamic game model of the strategic competition between Russia and developing countries (DCs), mainly represented by China, on the international market of emission permits created by the Kyoto Protocol. The model uses a for ...

2008