Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humankind for the next century. We expose how we build a Model about the Dynamics of Inertia and Adaptability in energy systems (DIAM) to study the question \"Shall we wait another decade before taking costly measures to curb greenhouse...

Ce qui rend l'analyse des modèles MARKAL et DICE intéressante est que ce sont deux modèles qui ont été très largement diffusés, répliqués et qui ont généré de nombreuses séquelles dans les forums impliqués dans la réponse économique au Changement Climatique.MARKAL est un modèle...

Deux des principaux auteurs des modèles relatifs à l'effet de serre (des pionniers en la matière), William Nordhaus et Alan Manne ont fait partie du staff de la Cowles Foundation. Les premiers travaux fondant les approches économiques de la réponse à l'effet de serre font partie des «...

Pour l'essentiel, l'idée de la « modélisation intégrée du Changement Climatique » consiste à réaliser des modèles qui couplent la description des activités humaines déterminant les émissions de gaz à effet de serre avec des modèles climatiques dont l'évolution est dépendante de...

Integrated Assessment Models of Global Change (IAM) are computer models which integrate sets of equations describing the interwoven evolution of the different sub-systems making up the Earth system:-human production systems and their economic counterparts, including exchanges, financial and...

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...

This case study describes the social aspects of Total's CO2 integrated capture, transport and storage pilot project in Frontsouthwestern France, from the initial press conference February 8th, 2007 to the announce of its end in 2013. The economic and social context was favorable. The company...

This paper examines the major barriers to the deployment of geothermal, small hydro and advanced coal power generation technologies in Vietnam. It ranks their severity by applying the analytical hierarchy process to data from a survey of 37 domestic experts and stakeholders. Key barriers to a...