Author: Jean-Francis Mendy
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Le Mécanisme d’Ajustement Carbone aux Frontières, politique environnementale ou protectionnisme vert ?
RésuméLe MACF est un instrument de politique climatique fort impactant la scène internationale. Préservant la compétitivité européenne sur le marché intérieur et désavantageant les économies en développement, son objectif purement environnemental est remis en question. Ses failles, externes comme internes, semblent toutefois résolvables plutôt que disqualifiantes. Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) Depuis le 1er…
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Nourrir le monde autrement : promesses, limites et conditions d’une transition à grande échelle
RésuméDégradation des écosystèmes, fragilité des agriculteurs, persistance de la faim et de la sous-nutrition, croissance de l’obésité et des maladies liées au régime alimentaire, le modèle agricole industriel montre ses limites. Les alternatives et leurs promesses agronomiques foisonnent mais sont-ils scalables sans perdre leurs bénéfices écologiques ? Télécharger la publication en français (PDF) Le système…
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Tracking Trust: Blockchains in the Global Supply Chain
Download the post in English (PDF) In 2013, lasagnas sold throughout Europe tested positive for horsemeat. It took health authorities several weeks to trace the source of the problem, navigating a tangle of subcontractors, intermediaries, and paperwork scattered across multiple countries. Five years later in the United States, E. coli contamination in romaine lettuce triggered…
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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. Download the post in English (PDF) The recent collapse, in November 2025, of a makeshift bridge at an artisanal copper-cobalt site in…
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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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