Le CIRED a organisé un colloque le jeudi 20 mars 2014 à l'auditorium du CNRS. Cet événement a été produit dans le cadre du projet de recherche européen R&Dialogue, en association avec le laboratoire PACTE (U. Grenoble-CNRS) et avec le soutien de l'INSHS et de l'INSIS du CNRS. Ce document...

This study estimates the human cost of failures in the CCS industry in 2050, using the actuarial approach. The range of expected fatalities is assessed integrating all steps of the CCS chain: additional coal production, coal transportation, carbon capture, transport, injection and storage, based...

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Vietnam is used way below its full potential. In spite of efforts to further CDM projects in the recent years, Vietnam still lags behind the comparable neighboring countries in term of registered CDM projects. Especially, though 2008 and 2009 have seen a...

We describe a method to represent the results of climate simulation models with analogues. An analogue to a city A is a city B whose climate today represents A's simulated future climate. Climates were characterized and compared non-parametrically, using the 30-years distribution of three...

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This paper discusses aspects of risk and uncertainty relevant in an interdisciplinary assessment of climate change policy. It opposes not only the objective approach versus the subjective approach, but also situations when precise probabilities are well founded versus situations of broader forms...

In this article, we assess the future prospects of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) from the perspective of a developing country, drawing on Vietnam as a case study. First, we review the performance of the CDM and describe the evolution of carbon markets on the path towards a post-2012...

This paper introduces a few words used by economists studying uncertainty, climate policy and integrated assessment models. Section one uses two pedagogical examples to define risk, uncertainty, surprise and contingent strategy. Regarding uncertainty that is not risk, subjective probabilities...

An awareness and opinion survey on Carbon Capture and Storage was conducted on a representative sample of French aged 15 years and above. About 6\% of respondents were able to provide a satisfying definition of the technology. The key question about 'approval of or opposition to' the use of CCS...