Documents et rapports
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Do we need a zero pure time preference or the risk of climate catastrophes to justify a 2C global warming target ? (anglais)
This paper confronts the wide political support for the 2C objective of global increase in temperature, reaffirmed in Copenhagen, with the consistent set of hypotheses on which it relies. It explains why...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5392 Date du document: 1 juillet 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dumas, P.,Hourcade,Jean Charles,Fabert, B. Perrissin
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Thirty-five years of long-run energy forecasting : lessons for climate change policy (anglais)
This paper sheds light on an implicit dimension of the climate policy debate: the extent to which supply-side response (emission-reducing energy technologies) may substitute for the transformation of consumption...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5298 Date du document: 1 mai 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hourcade,Jean Charles,Nadaud, Franck
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A note on the economic cost of climate change and the rationale to limit it below 2°C (anglais)
This note highlights a major reason to limit climate change to the lowest possible levels. This reason follows from the large increase in uncertainty associated with high levels of warming. This uncertainty...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5179 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hallegatte, Stephane,Dumas, Patrice,Hourcade,Jean Charles
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Equitable provision of long-term public goods: the role of negotiation mandates (anglais)
In a one-period model, whether or not individual weights in the welfare function are based on initial endowments dictate who provides public goods. But with long-term public goods, banning wealth redistribution...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3180 Date du document: 1 décembre 2003 Auteur: Hourcade,Jean Charles,Lecocq,Franck Michel