Category: Policy & Governance
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Nourrir le monde autrement : promesses, limites et conditions d’une transition à grande échelle
Le système mondial agricole actuel, hérité des transformations profondes du XXe siècle, est un des plus grands accomplissements de la civilisation. Il fournit en effet un volume de production conséquent ayant repoussé les frontières de l’insécurité alimentaire, grâce à des avancées notables en termes de productivité des cultures et de capacité de distribution. Cet exploit…
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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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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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