Publications

Events organized by I4CE: All events at a glance: Investment, Finance and Climate Date: 1st December, 11.15am – 12.45pm Location: Générations climat – Room 10 (open access) Title: Towards a sustainable financial system: lessons from national case studies and global evolutions in practice Partner: UNEP Inquiry Date: 4 December, 10.15am – 1.30pm Location: Zone bleue, hall […]

In partnership with the Embassy of France in US and the Environmental Defense Fund, I4CE- Institute for Climate Economics organized a conference on November 9th, 2015 in Washington – DC entitled “Putting a price on carbon: European & North American experiences and paths and forward”. Just a few weeks before COP21, this conference aimed to […]

Meet Igor Shishlov – Project Manager of our Finance, Investment and Climate division – who will briefly explain the main ideas behind GHG accounting. In two minutes, you will come to understand the issue of MRV in the Paris Climate 2015 agreement, present last steps in international climate negotiations and key initiatives of MRV methodologies […]

Profiling Financial Innovation for Sustainability in France: UNEP Inquiry’s Global Report on the Design of a Sustainable Financial System & a Country Report on France 4 November 2015 from 5.30pm Salon Michel Debré French Ministry for the Economy and Finance 139 rue de Bercy – 75012 Paris On 4 November, I4CE – Institute for Climate […]

Meet Romain Morel – Project Manager of our Finance, Investment and Climate division – who will briefly explain the main ideas behind climate finance. In two minutes, you will come to understand what climate finance refers to, the widely-known annual goal of $100 billion by 2020 and the fundamental challenge in raising the trillions of […]

Managing greenhouse gas emissions plays an important role in helping our economies follow a low-carbon trajectory. The objective of an emissions trading scheme is to help incentivize economic players from main emitting sectors – such as energy and industry – to reduce their CO2e emissions. I4CE – Institute for Climate Economics, IFP Energies nouvelles and […]

Meet Emilie Alberola – Program Manager of our Industry, Energy and Climate division – who will briefly explain the main ideas behind carbon pricing policies. In two minutes, you will come to understand the benefits of implementing carbon pricing and how the Paris Agreement could play a role in facilitating the proliferation of carbon pricing policy initiatives. […]

One of the principal challenges today is to scale-up the financial flows to the trillions of dollars per year necessary to achieve the 2°C long-term objectives. Achieving this transition to a low-carbon, climate resilient (LCCR) economic model requires the integration or ‘mainstreaming’ of climate issues as a prism through which all investment decisions should be made.

Today, developing carbon offsetting mechanisms to succeed those of Kyoto hinges on restoring confidence in the effectiveness and environmental integrity of carbon crediting projects. But it is also necessary to reassure investors – who lost some USD 66 billion with the collapse of demand and asset price in 2012 – about the safety of their […]

Development finance institutions (DFIs) are in a position to be key actors in aligning development and the 2° challenge. One of the principal challenges today is to scale-up the financial flows to the trillions of dollars per year necessary to achieve the 2°C long-term objectives. Achieving this transition to a low-carbon, climate resilient (LCCR) economic […]

The UNEP Inquiry has explored how changes in financial system design can bring the environment more effectively into financial decision-making. The Inquiry key findings are: Financing for sustainable development can be delivered through action within the financial system, as well as in the real economy Policy innovation from developing and developed countries demonstrate how the […]

On the road to the USD 100bn for the climate: what can we expect from Finance Ministers meetings in Lima? Ian Cochran and Romain Morel have published an op-ed on the French Huffington Post to explain what is at stake concerning the $ 100 Bn and the ministerial meeting happening this week in Lima. The […]

The Annual General Meeting of the Finance Initiative of the UN Environment Program will take place in Paris the next 12-13 October. It will focus on on the role of finance in sustainable development and climate change. Two discussion sessions will be opened to non-members and will focus on: One session on Environmental and Social Risk Management […]

I4CE welcomes the report of the Canfin-Grandjean Presidential Commission on Innovative Climate Finance On June 18th Pascal Canfin and Alain Grandjean, in the presences of Nicolas Hulot, submitted to French President François Hollande the report of the Commission on Innovative Climate Finance over which they presided. Over three months, the Commission interviewed more than 75 […]

Cet article propose une synthèse de la réponse d’I4CE à l’appel à consultation sur le rapport de recommandations de la Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD). I4CE soutient globalement les recommandations formulées par la TCFD et considère que ce rapport représente une avancée significative pour la gestion des enjeux climatiques par le secteur financier. Néanmoins […]