INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHAIR MODELING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

 

The inauguration of the Chair Modeling for Sustainable Development was held the December 16th, 2008 at MINES ParisTech in Sophia Antipolis, during an international conference jointly organized by the Chair and ETSAP (Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program).

This conference, on "Carbon and Prospective", was an opportunity to bring together industrial and academic experts from the Energy-Climate areas. These experts, international and national, have discussed about their long-term prospective vision of the evolution of the energy systems and of the carbon issue.

The responsibles of the Chair Modeling for Sustainable Development also showed their determination to build, with the partners of the Chair, a driving force to facilitate the decision making in debates about the scientific and technological issues related to the dual Energy-Climate constraint.

A book, "Carbon and Prospective" restituting the interventions realised during the conference was published by Presses des Mines on 2009

Program of this conference:

 

International Workshop "Carbon and Prospective"

[Presentations in English]

 

Jean-Eudes MONCOMBLE, General Secretary of the French Energy Council-CFE: "Energy policy scenarios for 2050" [Presentation]

Thierry CHAMBOLLE, Advisor for the Center for Strategic Analysis-CAS: "The shadow price of carbon" [Presentation]

Edi ASSOUMOU, Researcher at the Center of Applied Mathematics-CMA/MINES ParisTech: "Mitigation targets and carbon values: insights from TIMES-FR" [Presentation]

Olivier SASSI, Researcher at the International Center of Research on Environment and Sustainable Development-CIRED/Ecole des Ponts ParisTech: "Climate protection and infrastructures" [Presentation]

Chen WENYING, Professor at Tsinghua University, China: "Carbon issues in China" [Presentation]

Markus BLESL, Doctor-Engineer at Stuttgart University, Germany: "Sustainable Energy Supply in Europe - A comparison of the effects from the EU 20-20 targets on the German and French energy system" [Presentation]

 

Official launch of the Chair Modeling for sustainable development

 

- Opening by the co-founders of the Chair

Nadia MAIZI, Director of CMA (Centre for Applied Mathematics-MINES ParisTech)

Jean-Charles HOURCADE, Director of CIRED (International research center on environment and development-Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/AgroParisTech/CNRS/EHESS)

[Presentation]

 

- Round table of the industrial and institutional partners

Moderator: Michel COLOMBIER, Scientific director at IDDRI

Jean-Marie BOUCHEREAU, Assistant chief of service Observation, Economy and Evaluation de l'ADEME

Jean-Yves CANEILL, Project manager, Direction of Sustainable Development ofEDF

Alice de BRAUER, Director of the Strategic Environmental Planning of RENAULT

Frédéric VAILLANT, Director Technological Innovation of SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Jean-François MINSTER, Scientific director of TOTAL

 

- Conclusion of the academic partners

Benoît LEGAIT, Director of MINES ParisTech

Philippe COURTIER, Director of Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

Laurent ROSSO, Assistant Director of AgroParisTech

Jacques LEVY, President of the FI3M

Philippe BERGOT, General delegate of the Fondation de l'Ecole des Ponts

 

- Discours de clôture

Mr. Pierre LAFFITTE, Honory Senator, President of the Fondation Sophia Antipolis