Posted on August 7th, 2010 by Estelle Mandigout
Recent failures with international negotiations on Climate Change, especially the outcome of COP15, reinforce the lack of enthusiasm for sustainability among policymakers around the world. However increasing extreme weather incidents clearly show that we cannot afford to wait after international policy agreement to take action. When international agreements are sterile how to turn a matter [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Estelle Mandigout
In the context of economic downturn and pressing environmental issues, the emerging Biodiversity Business sector seems to offer outstanding opportunities. However, while Biodiversity Business presents an enormous capacity to drive change, suspicions have hampered its development. On one hand, as is the case for all sectors, risks to adopt new business models are important and [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Estelle Mandigout
Evidence of the limited short lifetime expectancy for fossil fuel exploitation makes biomass projects attractive again but faced many socio-ecological and cultural challenges. How should biomass production and the related market activities be organized to minimize environmental harmful impacts and maximize social welfare as well as taking into account cultural aspects? Limited economic goods stress [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Estelle Mandigout
Conventionally policy solutions to the global problem of Climate Change have been dominated by the concept of mitigation, unfortunately this approach contains the seeds of its own doom, critics say. A mitigation approach is an intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases (IPCC. 2001b), whereas the adaptation strategy; the second [...]
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