HENRY Claude

Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI). Physicist turned economist, Claude Henry worked at the École Polytechnique for more than 30 years, as a professor and as director of the econometrics laboratory. During this period, he was co-editor of the Review of Economic Studies and then of the Journal of Public Economics. His publications focus on: weak interactions between elementary particles; differential equations with discontinuities; option values ​​and irreversibility effect; decisions in uncertainty; the economics of public services and regulation; intellectual property and innovation.

From 1997 to 2002, he was also a member of the Economic Analysis Council, under the authority of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Claude Henry is now a professor of sustainable development at Sciences Po Paris and at Columbia University (New York, United States). He is a member of the Academia Europea, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a CNRS silver medalist.

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Standing up for a sustainable world

All components of natural capital – biodiversity, air, water, soil, climate – are crumbling under human pressures. Under such extreme threats, many might give up. The sixty-four contributors to the book “Standing up for a Sustainable World. Voices of change” [1] have embraced the spirit of the Prins van Oranje, who said (in French) when…

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Making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones: The rise of supercapacitors

Harold Kroto, at the University of Sussex, had discovered chain like carbon molecules in interstellar gas clouds. Would it be possible to vaporize carbon on earth to produce similar molecules and find out what they are exactly made of ? In order to try and answer this question, Kroto headed to Rice University, Houston-Texas, where…

Oersted, previously dong energy: catching mighty north sea winds

Dong is not a Chinese company. It is the acronym for Danish Oil and Gas Company, created in 1972 for managing oil and gas resources from the North Sea Danish sector, and for producing and distributing electricity as a utility owned by the Danish Government. Incidentally, they developed and constructed in 1991 the first offshore…

Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions

1. The devastating effects of household air pollution Indeed: “In developing countries, especially in rural areas, 2.5 billion people rely on biomass, such as firewood, charcoal, agricultural waste and animal dung, to meet their energy needs for cooking. In many countries, these resources account for over 90% of household energy consumption.”[1] (Figure 1).    …