COBHAM is now over but updating regularly this website has been the constant effort of our team throughout these 5 years and you can now find more than 100 interesting blog posts with dozens of illustrations to dig through…
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What are the enabling and limiting factors of solar deployment? New answers thanks to deep learning
The IPCC clearly acknowledges that behaviour changes and demand-side management are able to substantially limit the reliance on Carbon Dioxide Removal strategies, anyway essentials to stay below 1.5°C of warming…
Besides our specific field of research here at Cobham, there are a number of really interesting initiatives out there focusing on the remote sensing monitoring of pollution sources and biodiversity losses which could potentially make a difference…
According to this op-ed on the NYT, the popularity of behavioral economics follows just from good marketing… to me, much more is at stake!
The two Nobel laureates have actually been fundamental for my research since I started working in the field of climate change economics more than 15 years ago…
Listen to this very pleasant and simple podcast from the Conversation, with prof. Cass Sunstein…
Many things… according to Edward Tenner, author of a book on « The efficiency paradox ».
At the household level in China, carbon footprints are very unequally distributed: in 2012, only 5% of the population induced 19% of the total carbon footprint… while 58% of population have footprints down to 10 times lower…
When it comes to climate change, the answer is no… and that goes for both skeptics and believers…
According to ILO, the transition to a green economy will inevitably cause job losses (around 6 million till 2030) in certain sectors but they will be more than offset by new job opportunities (approx 24 Millions ) in others…
Online shopping is spreading so fast that transportation in the US have already taken over power plants as first emitters of the country, with obvious environmental consequences…
Read more →Certain firms could dramatically increase their profits… by just switching to energy efficient lighting systems. Really?
By analyzing “nudged” retirement plans in Sweden since 2000, researchers found that these decisions were indeed persistent and seem to last nearly two decades… “if not forever”.
How sound analyses of data on students and grades allowed to dramatically increase the graduation rates in Georgia State University in just ten years?
Bitcoin mining is now consuming more electricity than 159 countries and is projected to reach Denmark’s electricity consumption by about 2020…
From 2011 to 2013, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California automatically enrolled 174,000 households in a variable-pricing plan…
When big cities switch from traditional light bulbs to white LEDs, we should observe a decrease in the total amount of light that a satellite can see, but we don’t…
Read more →This is probably the reason you are reading this post right now…
As physical spaces are able to influence behaviors, also technologies shape how we evolve and interact in our context and ultimately can affect the performances of social organizations…