Sebastien Desbureaux (Montpellier Supagro - INRAE)

Sébastien Desbureaux
Montpellier Supagro - INRAE
Center for Environmental Economics (CEE-M)

Un papier écrit avec Lara Collart, Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp), Raphael Soubeyran (CEE-M), Matthieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon), Natsuno Shinagawa, Jean de la Croix Kembere and Christine Musharhamina (Parc National des Virunga).

Résumé 

Promoting clean cooking is one of the most cost-effective ways to advance global environmental goals while benefiting 2 billion low-income peoples. Yet, adoption remains slow. In Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, where charcoal demand threatens carbon- and biodiversity-rich forests home to the last mountain gorillas, we test if environmental policies can accelerate the uptake of energy-efficient Electric Pressure Cookers (EPCs). Our Pigovian subsidy and related interventions led to widespread and sustained EPCs use over 12 months, which reduced charcoal consumption by one-third, increased support for environmental policies, and yielded social benefits that exceeded costs by a factor of 14.