Author: Jean-Francis Mendy
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Critical Minerals: The Blind Spot of The Energy Transition?
AbstractThe energy transition is not dematerialization—it shifts dependency from fossil fuels to critical minerals, reproducing social, environmental, and epistemic injustices in the Global South. Ethical sourcing alone is insufficient; demand must be addressed. The recent collapse, in November 2025, of a makeshift bridge at an artisanal copper-cobalt site in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the…
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The Carbon Offset Illusion: Why Buying “Neutrality” Doesn’t Cut Emission?
Download the post in English (PDF) Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) Carbon offsets are instruments that allow an entity to compensate for its emissions by financing a reduction or removal of carbon dioxide elsewhere. This is a transaction that typically occurs in two types of markets: regulated compliance markets, in which governments or international…
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From Risk to Opportunity: Rethinking Green Finance in the Banking Sector
Download the post in English (PDF) Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) A profound market shift is redefining the banking sector: 65% of savers globally now demand investment options aligned with their environmental values (Accenture, 2024). Far from being a niche trend anymore, this powerful convergence of consumer demand and investor preference has become a…
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Is Ethical Fashion an Illusion?
Download the post in English (PDF) Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) Fashion stands at a crossroads between creativity and collapse. Once celebrated as a symbol of individuality and progress, it has become one of the most polluting industries on earth, driven by an economy of acceleration and disposability. With the environmental damage lies another…
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Why does the discount rate choice change everything in climate policy?
Download the post in English (PDF) Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) Climate change mitigation is fundamentally marked by a profound time imbalance: costs are immediate, borne by present generations, while the benefits unfold decades or even centuries later. Economists rely on a tool referred to as “discounting” in order to compare these present and…
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The Politics of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Lessons from Shifting U.S. Environmental Policies
Download the post in English (PDF) Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) This summer, United States President Trump ended the use by the federal government of the “social cost of carbon,” a measure of the damages caused by CO₂ emissions. The Trump administration claims it to be too uncertain, inherently prone to flaws, and insufficiently…
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Climatic Capitalism: Oxymoron or New Paradigm?
Download the post in English (PDF) Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) Aldous Huxley once confided: “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself” (Point Counter Point). If Huxley sought to change the world, the climate crisis today confronts us with…
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Capital and Ecology, a Tension Worth exploring — My Reason for Writing
Download the post in English (PDF) Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) A Gradual Realization In recent months, one question has been increasingly on my mind: What can the economic system still do in the face of the ecological crisis? As a social sciences student with a passion for economics, I’ve often encountered these two worlds…
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