Publications

About 50 heads of state gathered on 12 December to discuss finance and climate change at the One Planet Summit. To understand what was at stake, RFI met Benoît Leguet, Managing Director of I4CE. He talked about the objectives of the summit and the economy of the future.

By : Morgane Nicol, Ian Cochran, Benoit Leguet On Tuesday December 12 the ‘One Planet Summit’ will take place in Paris organized by Emmanuel Macron, Jim Yong Kim and Antonio Guterres to celebrate the 2 years anniversary of the Paris Agreement. The official summit – as well as side-events organized from December 10 to 14 […]

This survey aims to gather input from all stakeholders, including governments, to  understand their perspective on how to use revenues generated by carbon pricing policies. The project team aims to examine how carbon pricing revenues can be used to integrate climate into tax reforms and how the experience and best practices of developed countries in […]

Climate Finance Day 2017 « Acceleration ! » Monday 11 December 2017  organised by Finance for Tomorrow, Paris EUROPLACE and the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance. and in association with the event Mobilisation!  Inscription Centre de Conférence Pierre Mendes France, Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances 139 Rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris In order to showcase solutions developed by the […]

I4CE will be present at Bonn for the coming weeks of meetings and dialogues around COP23 issues. Discover our calendar of events!   Industry, Energy and Climate  Carbon Pricing – Generating and Using Revenues, November 8th from 10:00 to 11:30 – French Pavilion organized by I4CE, Enerdata and AFD  ETS and complementary climate-energy policies, November 14th from 16:45 to 18:15, […]

From September 18-24, 2017, Climate Week gathered many stakeholders engaged in the low-carbon transition, especially from the private sector, and led to several significant announcements. It was an important step before major climate-related events taking place before the end of the year : COP23, which will take place in Germany in November, and a climate summit […]

At the invitation of the Ministry of the Environment and its Secretariat for Sustainable Development and supported by the Partnership of Market Readiness of the World Bank , I4CE assists representatives of different ministries and economic sectors to understand the implementation of carbon pricing policies in Morocco with the aim at achieving their climate targets set in […]

Meet us during the following sessions : Thematic plenary « Access of non-state actors to climate finance Time: 15h30 to 17h00 Room: Salle Argane 1 Date: Monday 11 september Moderators: Pierre Ducret, President of I4CE;  Ayman Cherkaoui –Special Advisor COP22 This plenary will discuss the progress made in accessing climate financing by non-state actors as well as in aligning economic […]

The publication of the EU High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance’s Interim Report marks the end of the first phase of this group’s work – and the beginning of a much-needed dialogue with the European financial community as to why taking sustainability materially into consideration is essential. In September 2016, the European Commission established […]

Released in the scientific journal Climatic Change. Organisational uptake of scientific knowledge and adaptation of infrastructure Future development and renewal of transport infrastructures have to take into account how the effects of climate change will affect these complex sociotechnical systems. This article aims at understanding how to raise this issue to ensure an efficient and […]

Mapping financial flows dedicated to climate change action and the energy transition The Landscape of climate finance maps financial flows in favor of climate and the broader energy transition in France. The analysis of the flows allows an assessment of which actors conduct these investments and how they finance different types of projects. Analyze the distribution […]

Three steps to understand the implications of the EU ETS reform on free allocation In the debates on the post-2020 EU ETS reform, the issue of carbon leakage and of the competitiveness of EU industries has been calling particular attention. I4CE has built a simulation tool to estimate the EU ETS free allocation in Phase […]

On the sidelines of COP21, public and private financial institutions around the globe adopted 5 Voluntary Principles for “mainstreaming” climate change. The Initiative now renamed Climate Action in Financial Institutions gathers as of June 2017 30 financial institutions. It represents for them an opportunity to learn from each other, to disseminate good practice and lessons learned and to […]

I4CE – Institute for Climate Economics contributes to implementing the Paris Agreement, and to align financial flows with a low-carbon and climate-resilient development. We are IN to Make Our Planet Great Again. If you would like to come to France and work with us, please apply www.makeourplanetgreatagain.fr

Publication in ID4D blog Sébastien Postic, Charlotte Vailles et Marion Afriat from I4CE’s Industry Energy and Climate team have recently published blog post on the Ideas for Development blog coordinated by Agence Francaise de Développement. The deployment of renewable energies is a challenge for all countries. It requires a major transformation in existing infrastructure and regulations, which needs to […]

Finance for Tomorrow is an initiative led by the players of the Paris Financial Center to promote sustainable finance in France and internationally. It contributes to reorienting financial flows towards a low carbon and inclusive economy, in line with the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. I4CE is proud to be one of the […]

On May 29th, the High-Level Commission on carbon prices delivered its conclusions in a report dedicated to foster the implementation of carbon pricing policies. For the Commission, efficient carbon pricing paths begin with a strong price signal in the short term, followed by a credible commitment to maintain long-term prices at a level high enough […]

On 29th May 2017, I4CE, in partnership with the ERCST/ICTSD, the University of Graz and Nomisma Energia, invites you to a conference on the “2017 State of the EU ETS” report published in April 2017. 2017 State of the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) celebrates its 12th anniversary. […]

The following article provides a synthesis of I4CE’s response to the consultation on the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure’s recommendations. Globally, I4CE endorses TCFD’s recommendations that represent an important step towards ensuring the integration of climate issues by the financial sector. Nevertheless, I4CE feels that the TCFD’s recommendations on metrics require further developments in […]

On December 1st, 2016, Benoît Leguet concluded the “Défi Climat” session entitled “Which price(s) for carbon?”. Benoît’s speech was devoted to the social value of carbon, as defined in the Paris Agreement, and its links to the price(s) of carbon. In summary of this speech, consider the following four ideas that justify the need to […]