Press "Enter" to skip to content

Climat : pourquoi on est toujours en retard ? | Christian DE PERTHUIS | TEDxBelfort


alright so let’s talk together about
co2 and economy emissions climate
so you maybe you can you
ask us why why invite a
economist talk about the climate and
actually there are still twenty years in
2000 would have asked me what is that
it’s that the greenhouse effect I’m not
sure I could answer but I
changed my activity completely
professional economists in
2000s I was lucky enough to
meet people’s climatologists
who work on climate science
and who explains to us the question of
climate change
listen to the five minutes because if
the economy this is not able
to listen to climatologists and risk of
to say a lot of nonsense about the climate
we accumulate in the atmosphere a
greenhouse gas
main is the co2 and this stock
he is here for a long time
this stock we increase it every time
that we emit CO2 or other gases
greenhouse and then the middle
natural will instead store a
part of the CO2 that is in the atmosphere
whose oceans and in nature with
plants photosynthesis
what climatologists tell us
is that if we are not able
very quickly to completely change
the operation of this system of
carbon by targeting carbon neutrality
in the world to know if we are
not able to have a company in
which amount of our emissions
will be at least at the level of captation
in the ocean and in plants we
let’s go to climate risks
considerable and the last report of the
giec reminds us that we do not have
of time you have to go very fast
so what to do to transform our
economy that today filled
the greenhouse gas atmosphere
to go towards an economy that will be
carbon neutral and do it fast
so you have to do big things
first is to preserve the capacity of the
natural environment to store the carbon the
forests the ocean and then simultaneously he
must drastically and quickly reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and
especially all those who come from
the energy that is the primary source of
of greenhouse gas emissions
so what are we asking
today works of economy and
often when we talk about these big
climate issues we will watch them
china india which are countries
actually or the increase in
very strong emissions but let’s look at
we 2015 2016 2017 embellished with
the economy
you’re better off less than before
next one is optimistic or
pessimistic
and then it adds another
phenomenon
lower price of oil against shock
petroleum our emissions increase in
2015 in 2016
in 2010 is so in the running
current economy
when the economy goes better is that
the price the energy is low we
quickly increase our emissions
greenhouse gases and we’re highlighting
dramatically climate change
and we are falling behind because
climatologists tells us that
the climatic clock turn
irremediably and every year
additional missions will delay
the advent of this neutral society
carbon while can do the
economists that’s where maybe we
have some utility with our friends
climatologists thanks to his
meetings with imac as
climatologists I created the chair of
looking for climate savings and we
work with a lot of young people on
how to change the rules of the economy
to make sure that tomorrow we
have an economy that when we go
better them
well we drive we accelerate
elected emissions cuts instead
to increase them
how do we economists
we are interested in the exchanges the
price and when I look at the
functioning of the economy I see that
prices are far from expressing all the
environmental values
when our big companies
oil imports oil and the
refines she pays a price for oil
of a refining blow but where is the
cost associated with CO2 emissions on
cost of climate change
it’s not in price when we
other citizens
we make our choices on products
that we buy at the food for
transportation and energy
when we are full of
oil for heating winter gas
and fuels
the value associated with the damage
climate
it is that very weakly integrated
in prices how to change the
price system how to change the
price system integrate into the
values that are exchanged at the
international national costs
associated with environmental damage
that it is surely climatic or
whether it’s damage
Local environmental issues in France
national health agency tells us that
for 2016 68 thousand premature deaths
it is a considerable cost
it’s not in diesel prices that
so buy us economists or
think that it actually takes
integrated the value of the environment
in prices via mechanisms that
can be either tax or
license markets
why not do it and why it’s
so hard to do it or reasons
of justice for resident reasons
equity
two examples france he did not you
escaped that currently there are some
difficulties in increasing the
carbon and diesel taxation
crystallizes on fuels
why because there are no
social support measures and
redistribution needed a tax
carbon and redistributive anti
on average the rich people consume more
of energy that the poor but in
proportion of household budget
the cost of energy much higher and
if you have low incomes and
that in addition you are far from the center
city ​​for thirty years our policies
consisted of taking the poor out of
downtowns to put them in the
peri-urban environment
you are still much more affected
so in our country it is absolutely necessary
accelerate the increase in taxation
carbon and nuisances
environmental if we want to go
in the sense of what we are told
climatologists
but you have to do it with a
much more social support
important to prevent these systems from
environmental recovery does not take place
to the detriment of justice
take the international plane you have
all heard about lectures
under the auspices of the UN and
especially that of paris in december
2015 that it’s basically the
problem
if we want the economy
international changes its operation
integrate the climate issue into the
exchanges between countries lead to
radically different choices in
energy matter
and today we have the technologies the
cost of solar is in the process of
collapse
the question hydrogen which is a
very interesting question makes some
very large progress the storage of
electricity does very big makes of
progress what is missing a lever
economic an international price of
carbon that makes that in trade
global in all flows
incredible who go from asylum to europe in
North America we integrate in the
exchanges the value of the associated damage
to the climate and we will have an economy that will
operate completely differently
why we can not do it or
why it’s so difficult to do it
because at the international level the same
question arises between countries at a
other dimension
between rich countries and countries
poor and if we want to have a
international value of carbon
guide major economic decisions
we must associate with this value
international carbon this price
international carbon a huge
redistribution mechanisms
from the rich to the poor with
an increasing number of countries that are the
intermediate class that suburb and that
it’s very difficult to obtain
because a lot of perigee a lot
of its severity and rich in strings and
change their lifestyle and their
privileges
so the question of justice
climate is a question absolutely
essential is related to the pricing of the
carbon and saving work
it’s the work of young researchers
from the pulpit and the click at the half of
climate is to try to find the
mechanisms that will allow
reconcile the economic efficiency the
international climate justice and the
massive reduction of gas emissions
greenhouse effect to go towards a
carbon neutral society that is
the goal we assign the
climatologists
and if tomorrow we manage to change
the mechanisms of the economy
thanks to this carbon pricing
associated with arc distribution and
climate justice the functioning
of the economy will completely change and
we will move from the current impossible
our greenhouse gas emissions
which increases 2015 2016 but 17 because
the economy is getting better a
low carbon economy in which we go
integrate into our economic decisions
whether we are households or
companies or states the value of the
climate our exchanges
and to achieve an immense effort of
justice and redistribution is
absolutely indispensable of the impossible
possible thanks to the price of carbon
Please follow and like us: