Publications by Philippe Thalmann

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Impacts of global warming on energy use for heating and cooling with full rebound effects in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth

Global warming is expected to lower the energy demand for heating, which would contribute to a decline in CO2 emissions. This effect may be offset by energy needs for additional cooling and by the impacts of households that reinvest the money they save on ...

2017

Environmental impact assessment of nutritional guidelines under organic agriculture in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Gino Karim Claude Baudry, Agathe Isabelle Madeleine Crosnier

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

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

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 ...

IOP Publishing2024

Climate change in Switzerland: A review of physical, institutional and political aspects

Philippe Thalmann

Climate change is clearly discernible in observed climate records in Switzerland. It impacts on natural systems, ecosystems, and economic sectors such as agriculture, tourism, and energy, and it affects Swiss livelihood in various ways. The observed and pr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Underground Potential for Urban Sustainability: Mapping Resources and Their Interactions with the Deep City Method

Philippe Thalmann, Aurèle Parriaux, Michael Robert Doyle

In the process of urban growth, the underground is often only addressed once all surface alternatives have been exhausted. Experience shows that this can lead to unforeseen conflicts (e.g., subsidence, groundwater pollution) and to lost opportunities (e.g. ...

Mdpi Ag2016

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

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

'I pay enough taxes already!' Applying economic voting models to environmental referendums

Philippe Thalmann, Nicholas Bornstein

Objectives. Models of economic voting have rarely been applied to referendum votes. We fill this gap by testing citizens’ voting behavior on environmental policy in relation to their perception of the business cycle. Thus, the study examines the personal, ...

2008

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

Philippe Thalmann, Vincent Moreau, Frank Vöhringer, 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

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

Exploring barriers to climate change adaptation in the Swiss tourism sector

Philippe Thalmann, Cecilia Matasci

Increasingly, various sectors are affected by climate change and need to find ways to adapt with much public guidance and support. This paper examines the adaptation process of a sector that started it some time ago - Swiss Alpine tourism. It identifies ba ...

Springer Verlag2014

An Integrated Planning Concept for the Emerging Underground Urbanism: Deep City Method Part 1 Concept, process and application

Philippe Thalmann, Aurèle Parriaux, Huanqing Li

Four underground resources have been seen as having a long-term potential to support sustainable urban development: underground space, groundwater, geomaterials and geothermal energy. Utilization of these resources proposes a new paradigm of economic devel ...

Elsevier2013

Tenure neutral and equitable housing taxation

Philippe Thalmann

Equity and neutrality are distinct concepts in housing taxation and weak and strong tenure neutrality should be distinguished. When a tax system is tested for those criteria, the taxes paid by landlords must be included, as they affect the rents renters pa ...

2007

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

Using measured instead of perceived noise in hedonic models

Philippe Thalmann

This paper compares the use of perceived and measured noise in a hedonic housing model. Although in theory the use of subjective variables is recommended, most empirical applications use measured noise variables. Merging different databases, we obtain a sa ...

Elsevier2010

Gradual Introduction of Coercive Instruments in Climate Policy

Philippe Thalmann

Acceptance is the key problem of carbon taxes. This chapter is about acceptance building, ie devising a mechanism for the gradual preparation of the population and the economy in order to implement a carbon tax. It draws on experiences in Switzerland, wher ...

2008

Energy-Tax Changes and Competitiveness: The Role of Adaptive Capacity

Philippe Thalmann, Camille Gonseth

This paper estimates the effect of energy tax (and price) changes on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and net trade at the industry level, using a panel of industries from European countries covering the period 1990-2003. We investigate the hypothesis that ...

Elsevier2015

Cost and benefits of climate change in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Frank Vöhringer, Boris Thurm, 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

Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?

Philippe Thalmann

Turning greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ball ...

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy2016