« La Transition énergétique  : objectif ZEN », Fanny Henriet and Katheline Schubert (January 2021)

Discover this new book, published in January (Editions rue d’Ulm) by Fanny Henriet, professor at PSE and research fellow at CNRS, and Katheline Schubert, PSE Chaired professor and professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

La Transition énergétique : objectif ZEN

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Summary

Achieving our energy transition to a net zero emission (NZE) world will be difficult and costly, but we have no choice. If we want the planet to be liveable for our children, we need to shift energy production from fossil to decarbonised sources and transform the economy. The climate clock is ticking very fast: such a transition cannot wait.

Technological progress, changing individual preferences and social norms, fiscal and regulatory policies, green finance... - the levers for lowering carbon emissions are numerous. Some are more effective, others are easier to put in place, but none, used alone, can be sufficient. We need to mobilise them all, within a package of measures structured around a carbon price that reflects the reduction in the carbon budget.

The authors

• Fanny Henriet is professor at PSE, research fellow at CNRS and affiliate research at IPP. She graduated from École Polytechnique, holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a PhD in economics from EHESS at PSE (“Essays on the Economics of Climate Change”, Director: Roger Guesnerie). In 2019, Ms Henriet was awarded the Banque de France Prize for Young Researchers in Green Finance. Her recent work focuses on optimal taxation, natural resources and environmental economics, including the economics of climate change and was published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Climatic Change and the European Economic Review. In March 2019, Ms Henriet co-authored a note “For the climate: a fairer tax, not just a tax” commissioned by the the French Council for Economic Analysis (Conseil d’Analyse Economique - CAE). Go to her personal webpage

• Katheline Schubert is PSE Chaired professor and professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ms Schubert is also an associate researcher at CESifo, co-director of the “Globalisation, Development and Environment” programme at CEPREMAP, and a member of the High Council for the Climate (HCC), the Council for Economic Analysis and the Economic Council for Sustainable Development (CEDD). She was also President of the AFSE in 2015-2016. Katheline Schubert - graduated from the École Centrale de Paris - holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research interests include the economics of natural resources and the economics of climate change. Her recent work was published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Public Economic Theory. In 2017, Ms Schubert co-authored a report entitled “The Impact of CETA on Environment, Climate and Health” commissioned by the French Prime Minister and various notes for the French Council for Economic Analysis (Conseil d’Analyse Economique - CAE). Go to her personal webpage

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