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Odile Blanchard is an Associate Professor of Economics at Grenoble University (France) and a research fellow at LEPII (Laboratoire d’Economie de la Production et de l’Intégration Internationale), within the EREN team (Energy, Resources, Environment and Negociations).

She was a visiting fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington DC, USA, in 2001-2002 and a visiting professor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA in 2006-2007.

Till the mid 1990s, she carried out research on energy demand and modelling in developing countries.

Her current research focuses on economic issues relating to climate change, namely:

- the economic analysis of climate change mitigation policies, including the on-going international climate negotiations and their future prospects ;

- the potential paths towards increased participation of industrialized and developing countries to considerably reduce the anthropogenic greenhouse effect ;

- the development of an analytical tool to help support future decisions under the Climate Convention and other climate-related fora;

- the United States' climate policy.

Odile Blanchard also manages out a climate-friendly university project at Grenoble University. The goal of the project is to identify and implement various actions to reduce the greenhouse gases emitted by the university. more...

She is a graduate from the School of Management "École des Hautes Études Commerciales" (HEC) and holds a PhD in energy economics from Grenoble University.

Recent publications :

Winkler H., Baumert K., Blanchard O., Burch S., Robinson J. (2007). “What factors influence mitigative capacity ?”, Energy Policy, 35(1), p. 692-703.

Blanchard O., Criqui P., Kitous, A., Mima S. (2006). “The impact of climate policies on energy markets and the price of carbon.” Revue d'économie financière, (83) Carbon Finance Special Edition, p. 89-110.

Blanchard, O. (2005)."Trading through the flexibility mechanisms: quantifying the size of the Kyoto markets". In: Climate change and carbon markets : a handbook of emissions reduction mechanisms. F., Yamin, ed. Londres: Earthscan, p. 166-82.

Blanchard O., (2005). Technological Capacity to Protect the Climate: Conceptual Approach and Tentative Indicators, Report to the World Resources Institute, Washington D.C.

Blanchard O., Perkaus J. (2004). "Does the Bush Administration's climate policy mean climate protection?", Energy Policy, 32(18), p. 1993-1998.

Blanchard O., (2004). Les outils économiques au service d'un projet d'université citoyenne, Paper presented at the Annual Seminar of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Rennes, May 18 and 19. (Economic tools to build a climate-friendly university).

Baumert K., Markov M., with Blanchard O., Höhne N., (2003). Indicator Framework Paper. Document accompanying the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) developed at the World Resources Institute. Paper and tool available online at: http://cait.wri.org/