Nature

ISSUES

Economics and nature

A growing number of ecologists seize economic arguments to prove that defending nature is not only a moral necessity, but also a reasonable investment in everyone's best interests. Using these arguments, ecologists address political and economic decision makers, highlighting the profit to be made from investments which may initially seem costlier but which in the long term will be less costly and therefore more profitable.
In a world where many decisions are taken on financial grounds, the field of economics attaches greater or lesser importance to things by assigning them a greater or lesser value. Since several environmental resources have become scarce, the question arises of assigning them a value in order to manage them as efficiently as possible.

NEWS

Obama calls for Congress to enact 'green' tax credits

Goldman to plow $40 bn into green energy

China slams US over 'protectionist' solar cell duties

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DEBATES

Greening the European Investment Bank

Manana Kochladze

Over the past four years, the European Investment Bank – the European Union’s house bank – has loaned €48 billion ($62 billion)...

Fossil fuel or modern slavery ?

Slavery is often approached with a similar outlook, based...

A French Cure for the Resource Curse

The campaign to ensure that companies engaged in extractive...

FOCUS

Educating women

Educating women is probably the biggest problem we face in the 21st century because it means putting right an injustice – gender inequality – and combating two of the world’s problems: overpopulation and poverty.Today, 64 % of the 860 million...

VIDEOS

04/04/2012	Trailer for the documentary film THE LIGHT BULB CONSIPRACY by Cosima...	17/11/2011	The United States isn't broke; we're the richest country on the planet and...
07/11/2011	A video about solar panel production in Kenya.	27/09/2011	A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated...

GREEN TIPS

Hooray for taste!

The « Slow Food » organisation (thus named in contrast to « fast-food ») whose symbol is a snail is promoting...

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