Category: Ideas & Debate
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Tracking Trust: Blockchains in the Global Supply Chain
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 a massive recall. Lacking the ability…
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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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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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