| Article ID: | iaor20115978 |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Start Page Number: | 4325 |
| End Page Number: | 4336 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Journal: | Energy Policy |
| Authors: | Assoumou Edi, Mazi Nadia |
| Keywords: | energy, economics |
• We quantify the dynamic evolution of carbon values for France. • We use a long‐term optimization energy model from the MARKAL family. • We compute consistent energy balances for different climate and energy policy. • We show that the official guideline is only consistent with optimistic assumptions. • The dynamic is not a simple upward curve and influencing parameters are analyzed.