

Antoine Dechezleprêtre
Senior Economist, OECD
Antoine Dechezleprêtre is a Senior Economist in the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), OECD. His work deals principally with the role of innovation and technology diffusion for the green transition and the impact of environmental policies on innovation, technology adoption, carbon emissions, productivity and firm performance. He holds a PhD in economics from Ecole des Mines de Paris (France) and is the winner of the 2020 European Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty. Before joining the OECD, he was Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute of Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, and then headed the Green Growth work stream joint between the Economics Department and the Environment Directorate of the OECD.
Recent work by Antoine Dechezleprêtre
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Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme
Carbon offset programmes allow polluters to pay others to reduce emissions on their behalf. In theory, this can achieve the same emissions reductions at a lower cost, but only if the payment actually incentivises the recipient to cut emissions. If of...
Published 15.04.25