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

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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

The green gold trade

With a volume estimated at about 20 billion dollars per year, trade in [endangered?] [animal?] species ranks third in illegal trades behind those of weapons and narcotics. It includes the counterfeiting of...

VIDEOS

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...	12/04/2011	John Moavenzadeh, Senior Director and Head of Mobility Industries, reveals...

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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