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Name
Odile  Blanchard
Address
71 Lotissement le Grand Pré Vert 
Saint Martin d'Uriage  OT  38410
Phone Number +33 4 76 15 33 76
Institution UPMF, Grenoble University
Title Associate Professor
Biography
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 a climate –friendly university project at Grenoble University. The goal of the project is to identify and implement various actions to stabilize the greenhouse gases emitted by the university.
She is a graduate from the School of Management “École des Hautes Études Commerciales” (HEC) and holds a PhD in economics from Grenoble University.
Recent Consulting

Odile Blanchard manages a climate –friendly university project at Grenoble University. The website can be visited at:
http://weidd.upmf-grenoble.fr/UniversiteCitoyenne/pages_puc/accueilpuc.htm
Publications
Winkler H., Baumert K., Blanchard O., Burch S., Robinson J. (2007)
“What factors influence mitigative capacity ?”
Energy Policy
Vol 35 Iss 1 692-703 pp

 

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
Vol 83 89-110 pp

 

Blanchard O. (2007)
Réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans une université : le défi d’impliquer tous les membres (Greenhouse gas emission reductions in a university: how to involve all the stakeholders?)
Communication to the colloquium Sustainable campuses / Ecocampuses, University of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada,