La Conférence sur le climat qui s'ouvre aujourd'hui à Paris est un moment charnière pour notre avenir.

Paris 2015 marks the start of a climate change investment boom worth trillions of dollars. This upcoming hype begs the question: can we grow our way out of climate change?

In theory, uncertainties about the costs of the low carbon policies implemented by each country to meet the emissions quota imposed by the agreement make it unlikely that any credible agreement could be reached or respected, either because countries would be reluctant to commit, or due to opportunistic cheating.

A factor that clearly differentiates COP21 and COP15 in Copenhagen is the increasing mobilization of the financial sector. In the past months, financial actors have taken commitments and spoken out on climate-related topics.

Because the climate is a common good, economists generally advocate the use of an international carbon price to internalize climate risk, to incorporate as many countries as possible into an agreement and to thwart “free-rider” strategies.

It will be key for the global sustainability transition that the measures taken in the respective sustainability dimensions, i.e. the economic, the ecological, and the social dimension, complement and reinforce each other.

Au-delà du ralentissement, peut-on détecter dans les tendances récentes des changements structurels qui amorcent un nouveau régime de croissance en Chine ?

Linking public debt to CO2 emissions could give governments a strong incentive to deliver on climate change action.

Les propositions d’ingénierie financière susceptibles d’orienter l’investissement vers la transition énergétique et écologique doivent passer au crible d’au moins deux critères distincts, financier et environnemental.

Les vingt pays les plus vulnérables aux impacts du changement climatique viennent de constituer, le 8 octobre 2015, à Lima, un nouveau groupe, le V20 (Vulnerable Twenty Group), présidé par Cesar Purisima, ministre des Finances des Philippines.