Webinar 2% for 2nd

An alumnus of ENSAE (1992), ENS Ulm and Ecole Polytechnique, Gaël Giraud is a French Jesuiteconomist and priest . A specialist in mathematical economics, formerly Chief Economist at the Agence Française de Développement and Director of Research at the CNRS, he is currently engaged as Director of the Environmental Justice Program at Georgetown University in Washington.

Gaël Giraud's research focuses on the interaction between political science, macroeconomics and the environment, and on political theology. It bears witness to a conviction: research in silo will not enable us to develop the socially and politically useful science needed to implement ecological reconstruction. We therefore need to learn how to engage in genuine dialogue between disciplines, without any one of them claiming to impose its episteme on the others.

Honorary Chairman of the Institut Rousseau, Gaël Giraud took part in drawing up the "2% for 2° C" report.C " report,which quantifies the public and private investment needed to achieve carbon neutrality in France by 2050. One might have imagined that this costing had already been carried out: Indeed, how can we think of national low-carbon strategies (SNBC) or multi-year energy plans (PPE) without simultaneously addressing the question of the budgetary and financial resources needed to achieve them? Surprisingly, however, such a "census" did not exist, despite scattered and incomplete attempts by public and private bodies to provide data.

The result? 2%. After months of work, the 23 experts mobilized conclude that we would need to mobilize a minimum of 2% of GDP per year to limit the rise in temperature at the end of this century within the limits of the Paris Agreement.

The evening will be hosted by Emilie Rannou ( ENSAE 2007) Senior Manager in Strategy and Data Science at EKIMETRICS.

Not to be missed!

Come one, come all, and mark your calendars!