Jean-Charles Hourcade
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Jean-Charles Hourcade is Director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and director of the CIRED (Centre international de recherches sur l'environnement et le développement), a laboratory belonging both to CNRS and to EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris).
Since 1990, he played a key role in french social science research coordination for backing up the awareness and negotiating capacities of official and governmental agencies in charge the climate change. As convening lead author of chapters for the Second (1996) and the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC and also in taking part in various European networks within EU and to the EMF (Stanford), he is committed to international cooperation.
Since 1990, he played a key role in french social science research coordination for backing up the awareness and negotiating capacities of official and governmental agencies in charge the climate change. As convening lead author of chapters for the Second (1996) and the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC and also in taking part in various European networks within EU and to the EMF (Stanford), he is committed to international cooperation.