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

Goldman Sachs to invest in Japan green energy

EU says emissions down, but pollution scheme falters

US Supreme Court finds for Monsanto in seed patent battle

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DEBATES

Soaring Demand for Metals Calls for Rethink of Recycling Practices

UNEP

The growth in demand for metals, which could see needs rise by almost ten times current levels, calls for a rethink of recycling...

Stop Paying the Polluters

“When the winds of change blow,” says an old Chinese...

Sovereign Environmental Risk

Until the global financial crisis erupted four years ago,...

FOCUS

Nobel Price of ecology

Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...

VIDEOS

07/03/2013	Following three years of earthquake recovery, Haitians are rebuilding...	24/10/2012	Feeding the world sustainably, as the global population grows, is one of...
29/08/2012	Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Lego Group CEO presents his company's approach to...	21/08/2012	American and Canadian farmers speak out against seed patents and GEcrop...

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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