The Climate Economics Chair is a joint initiative by CDC Climat and Paris-Dauphine University under the aegis of the Europlace Finance Institute Foundation. Through this Chair, CDC Climat and the Paris-Dauphine University aim at fostering the emergence of an internationally-recognized research center developing applied research and stimulating didactic innovation in the field of climate change economics.

CDC Climat is sponsor as well as research partner of the Chair. Other partners may support the Chair’s development by becoming sponsor of one of its research initiatives or by joining CDC Climat in the overall project.

Headed by Christian de Perthuis, professor of economics at Paris-Dauphine University, the Climate Economics Chair gathers a team of researchers who is part of an international network of centers of excellence. It takes over from the research initiated since 2005 within the Caisse des Dépôts and consolidates the partnership forged at this occasion with Paris-Dauphine University.

The Chair is also an exchange arena open to carbon finance professionals, policy makers and researchers. Its first research initiative, « Carbon markets and prices », seeks to evaluate the impacts of a carbon price on the economic developments, and the conditions for its extension in the world. This initiative builds on the research program on the ex-post evaluation of the European CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme which was conducted in 2006 and 2007 by a consortium of researchers from University Paris-Dauphine and CDC Climat Research (formerly the Mission Climat of Caisse des Dépôts), Centre for Energy and Environment Policy Research (CEEPR) of MIT, University College Dublin.

More information about the ex-post evaluation of the European CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme

Further information: Website of the Climate Economics Chair (CEC)