Publications by Philippe Thalmann

Input factor substitution under climate-neutral pathways

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Fleance George Cocker

Achieving climate neutrality will require clean alternatives to entirely replace fossil energy carriers and technologies in most economic sectors. However, standard computable general equilibrium (CGE) frameworks, which are widely used to analyse climate p ...

Elsevier BV2025

Environmental impact assessment of nutritional guidelines under organic agriculture in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann

Introduction The implementation of “farm to fork” solutions, taking into account the entire food value chain, is necessary to address the wide range of issues arising from agri-food systems. On the production side, organic farming is one of the main altern ...

Frontiers Media SA2025

Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann

Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household E ...

2024

Swiss Negative Emissions Fund – paying for Net Zero

Philippe Thalmann, Sascha Nick

In this paper, we propose setting up a fund to finance the removal of all Swiss territorial GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions from 2030. The fund will accelerate decarbonization and help reach annual net zero emissions around 2040, and then progressively remo ...

E4S Enterprise for Society2022

Towards true climate neutrality for global aviation: a Negative Emissions Fund for Airlines

Philippe Thalmann, Sascha Nick

What would it take for aviation to become climate-neutral by 2050? We develop and model a trajectory for aviation to reduce its CO2 emissions by 90% by 2050, down to a level where all residual emissions can be removed from the atmosphere without crowding o ...

2022

What determines the attitude-behavior link when voting on renewable energy policies? The roles of problem perception and policy design

Philippe Thalmann

This chapter sheds light on the paradox between the general perception of climate change related problems and resistance to measures addressing it, namely the support of renewable energy policies at the ballot box. Using conjoint analyses, we investigate t ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2021

A two-step decision model on energy retrofitting buildings

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Sergey Arzoyan

In standard modelling of energy and climate policies, the speed and extent of energy efficiency improvements (EEIs) are usually assumed to be unaffected, even by policies designed to foster innovation. We model endogenous EEI in a model of the Swiss housin ...

2021

Do rebound effects matter for Switzerland? Assessing the effectiveness of industrial energy efficiency improvements

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Vincent Moreau, Michel Zimmermann

In energy policy, efficiency improvements are conventional means for reducing industrial energy use as well as related environmental and climate externalities. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of energy efficiency improvements in reducing energy use is kno ...

2021

Embodied Energy and Lifecycle Costs: Questioning (Mis)conceptions about Underground Construction

Aurèle Parriaux, Philippe Thalmann, Michael Robert Doyle

In the construction community, underground construction is perceived as being significantly more costly and more energy-consuming than comparable surface construction. Although the literature is scarce, studies that have attempted to quantify this differen ...

2019

Cost and benefits of climate change in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, Anita Frehner, Dario Stocker, Wolfgang Knoke

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impact studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to asse ...

2019

Lowering CO2 emissions in the Swiss transport sector

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle

In Switzerland, transportation represents 41% of CO2 emissions from energy combustion (2016), a much higher share than in the European Union (EU) (28%) or even the USA (34%). While total Swiss CO2 emissions decreased by 10% between 1990 and 2016, CO2 emiss ...

2019

Des contingents flexibles pour le transport aérien

Philippe Thalmann

L'avion fait croître les émissions de CO2 imputables aux Suisses. La politique envisage une taxe sur les billets. Cet article documente l'évolution des émissions, examine les solutions envisagées et en propose une autre: l'attribution d'un budget à chaque ...

2019

Welfare effects of technology-based climate policies in liberalized electricity markets: seeing beyond total system cost

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire

This paper is a contribution to assessing the Swiss energy transition, with an emphasis on the consequences of decommissioning the nuclear power plants for the electricity market and the whole economy. We expect that increased renewable generation and dema ...

2019

Leitfaden Preisgünstige Mietwohnungen

Philippe Thalmann

Dieser Leitfaden erläutert die Konzepte und die verschiedenen möglichen Umsetzungsvarianten von preisgünstigen Mietwohnungen. ...

Lehrstuhl für die Ökonomie der natürlichen und gebauten Umwelt der ETH Lausanne2019

Concerns of young protesters are justified

Philippe Thalmann, Dominique Bourg

In this letter, we recall that young people's concerns about climate change are based on our best scientific knowledge and that the measures taken so far by our authorities to protect the climate and the biosphere are far from up to the threat. We therefor ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

Defining deep decarbonization pathways for Switzerland: an economic evaluation

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau

This paper aims at simulating deep decarbonization pathways for Switzerland. The analysis relies on macro-economic simulations of GEMINI-E3, a computable general equilibrium model used to assess the energy and economic impacts of a Swiss low carbon society ...

2018

Was hat die Schweizer Klimapolitik bisher bewirkt?

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle

Die Wirkung der Energie- und Klimapolitik auf die Treibhausgasemissionen ist schwierig zu beziffern. Simulationen zeigen: Will die Schweiz die Klimaziele erreichen, sind weitere Massnahmen erforderlich. ...

2018

Qu’est-ce que la politique climatique de la Suisse a déjà obtenu ?

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle

La Suisse doit rendre compte des résultats atteints grâce aux mesures mises en place depuis 1990 pour réduire ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre. L’évolution des émissions est connue, mais pas les niveaux qu’elles auraient atteints sans ces mesures. Des ...

2018

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Frank Vöhringer

Springer Verlag2017

Économiser de l’énergie grâce au réchauffement climatique

Philippe Thalmann, Camille Gonseth, Marc Vielle

Le réchauffement climatique engendre de nombreux problèmes. Il comporte également quelques aspects positifs, notamment une diminution des besoins en chauffage durant l’hiver. Un scénario climatique moyen nous permet de prédire une diminution potentielle de ...

2017