Paris 2015 COP21 and Beyond: Cooling the Climate Debate

25 November 2015 - Foreword of the week

Benoît Leguet, CEO I4CE – Institute for Climate Economics

Paris 2015 COP21 and Beyond: Cooling the Climate Debate.
Chair of Sustainable Development – Environment, Energy, Society and Collège de France

The professor Sterner and Guesnerie seized the opportunity of the meeting in Paris for the COP 21 to organize an international symposium on the economics of climate policies. The first day of the conference went back on the intellectual debate that feeds the discussion on the design of climate policies. The Institute Louis Bachelier was the partner of the second day of the conference which addressed items that were closer to the issues of the negotiation of COP 21, Paris, 2015.
I4CE – Institute for Climate Economics was pleased to be represented in the person of Benoit Leguet. He took part in the final round table accompanied by Carlo Carraro (ICCG), Christian de Perthuis (Climate Economics Chair), Corso Bavagnoli (DG Tresor), Thomas Sterner (Collège de France) and Roger Guesnerie (Collège de France) .
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