Sweden has developed an extensive and sound policy framework to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It is now one of the OECD countries with the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per capita and it has successfully managed to decouple GDP growth from emissions growth. However, as Sweden has already...

Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives. As such, understanding the linkages between environmental policy and technological innovation in achieving environmental objectives is important. This is particularly true in the area of climate change, where the...

Les prospectives sur le changement climatique amplifient les risques déjà lourds qui pèsent sur les ressources hydriques et les capacités agricoles au sud de la Méditerranée. Ce papier analyse la portée méthodologique du concept de " commerce d'eau virtuelle " en quantifiant le contenu...

L'article présente tour à tour les scénarios élaborés dans le cadre du GIEC/IPCC (Groupe d'Experts Intergouvernemental sur l'Evolution du Climat) pour décrire le champ des possibles des scénarios " sans politique ", puis les grandes lignes de " scénarios-objectif " permettant de...

Cet article s'intéresse aux déterminants de la capacité à atténuer le changement climatique. Ceux-ci ont été élaborés initialement dans un papier de Yohe puis dans le troisième rapport d'évaluation du GIEC. Après avoir revisité la définition de la capacité à atténuer le...

Pour lutter contre le changement climatique, les pouvoirs publics devront programmer une hausse progressive du prix des énergies fossiles, émettrices de gaz à effet de serre.

Sustainable development is a key theme in policy making in Norway. Although it owes a considerable part of its wealth to the carbon-based economy, Norway gives priority to the objectives embodied in the OECD Green Growth Strategy and sees itself as a pioneer in some areas. The sustainable...

The consensus view of scientists is that the build-up of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere is causing global warming. To reduce the probability of severe climate-change impacts and costs occurring, global GHG emissions need to be reduced substantially over coming decades. The United...

Investment in low carbon infrastructure is considered an important component of the fight against climate change. The mechanisms of climate regulation (such as carbon offsets) transfer to project developers the risks associated with reducing emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, i.e....

The electricity sector is the single most important EU ETS sector and will have determinant role in EU ETS emissions and emissions reductions. As such, understanding the reaction of the sector to EUA or carbon permit prices, both in the short-term (production) and in the long-term (investment)...