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{"title":"How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development","authors":"M. Berry","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00059","url":null,"abstract":"Jean-François Caron was elected mayor of Loos-en-Gohelle in 2001 as a member of the Green Party. An election on this ticket is very unusual in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, a mining area that used to employ as many as 220 000 people. He succeeded his father as mayor, and this, in the world of ‘mining paternalism’, gave him a sort of endorsement. Previously, Caron had also been in charge of an important group project aimed at developing the town. These unique circumstances set the stage for one of the most surprising transformations of a town and a region ever seen.1","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127778073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Capitalism and the curse of external effects","authors":"C. Henry","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00011","url":null,"abstract":"The most celebrated pronouncement in economics – Adam Smith’s on the “invisible hand”: “By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it” (Smith, 1776) – today looks as outdated as the Commandment: “Thou shalt not bear false witness” (Matthew 19:16–19). Instead of a competitive market, where providers meet consumers’ demands, we have at the core of the economy a nexus of dominant firms, the activities of which bring more harm than good: abusers deeply indifferent to the welfare of the people, particularly of their health and the environment in which they live, rather than providers of goods and services meeting their needs. To maintain their dominance, they cover up the harmful effects of their activities, they manipulate the relevant information – scientific knowledge in particular. In democracies they marshal their outsized wealth and power to subvert representative and administrative institutions, the legitimacy of which they hollow out, hence still increasing their domination. In authoritarian regimes, under various forms of state or crony capitalism, firms and public authorities are tightly interwoven; only to the extent they deem it necessary to “keep them happy” – that is, quiet – do they worry about ordinary people. In “market capitalism”, it’s not market, it’s capitalism as it functions today that is the culprit (see, for instance, Philippon, 2019a, 2019b).1 Even worse are the Chinese version, the defunct Soviet one, and various forms of crony capitalism in developing countries. Mark Twain once said, when reporting about the “water wars” along the Colorado River: “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting about”. In this chapter we illustrate – mainly with references to natural capital, climate in particular, and to public health – another dichot-","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115421740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The carbon tax in Sweden","authors":"T. Sterner","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00014","url":null,"abstract":"To have a reasonable chance of avoiding the worst effects of climate change, the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere needs to be stabilized as soon as possible. This basically means that the whole world must stop emitting carbon completely within the space of less than two generations. For the rich and developed countries, it is reasonable to demand more, leaving a little more room for the poorest countries to adapt a little more slowly. A suitable goal would be decarbonization by 2050. It also happens to be the official goal in Sweden for 2045 and luckily, there is some degree of unity around this goal even though the environmentalists would like to set the date to 2040 and the conservatives maybe 2050 or 2060. The crucial question is, of course, how is this to be done? Activists often focus on demanding percentage reductions, plans or laws. There is, however, no guarantee that these instruments have any effect. A price of carbon is different. It takes effect automatically in a market economy. Societies are complex and there are numerous policy instruments at various levels. This ranges from the European Community with its plans and its instruments (in particular, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for climate permits for large industry) to the level of municipalities that plan and permit industries and other economic activities at the local level. Sweden has followed in the footsteps of the United Kingdom in implementing climate legislation and planning (Government Offices, 2008). It has followed Germany in subsidizing renewables, but the most striking feature of Swedish policy is the carbon tax. Economists often put much emphasis on carbon taxation as the prime instrument of climate policy. One of the reasons for this is that in a market economy, affecting the price of a good or resource will typically be (1) the most effective way of changing resource allocation, and also it is (2) the most all-encompass-","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129835236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why are we so much more afraid of COVID-19 than of climate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for the communication of climate change","authors":"F. Gemenne, A. Depoux","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00070","url":null,"abstract":"As most countries of the world were affected by the COVID-19 in the first months of 2020, many of them took radical measures to contain the spread of the pandemic. Thousands of flights were cancelled, schools and shops were closed, industrial production was slashed, people were confined at home. The whole economy came to a standstill. Many of these measures resulted in very significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric pollution. Estimates by Carbon Brief reckon that greenhouse gas emissions in China were down 25 percent in February 2020, while fine particle levels were down 20–30 percent across the country (Myllyvirta, 2020). Global air traffic was reduced by 4.3 percent that same month – and this was before the ban on flights from Europe to the US imposed by US president Donald Trump in early March. Paradoxically perhaps, some of these measures had a positive impact for human health. Marshall Burke, from the Earth System Science Department at Stanford University, calculated that ‘reductions in air pollution in China caused by this economic disruption likely saved twenty times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to infection with the virus in that country’ (Burke, 2020). Though the global impact of the pandemic on climate change will be difficult to assess, given the far-reaching economic, political and social implications of some of the containment measures, one thing is certain: it is possible for world leaders to take urgent and radical measures in the face of an imminent threat, and for the populations to accept them. Yet we haven’t been able, so far, to take similar measures to confront climate change. Until the pandemic outbreak, and despite many calls from activists and scientists alike to declare a state of ‘climate emergency’, emissions were still rising at a yearly increase of 1 per cent.","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133570540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to Part VII","authors":"J. Rockström","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00067","url":null,"abstract":"We simply have to admit it. Just as Georgina Mace highlights at the outset of her chapter on biodiversity, we have, despite the fact that biodiversity loss is perceived as a concern and has many advocates, largely failed to touch the hearts of citizens at large. The role that nature and climate – in essence, a stable planet – plays in our lives and the lives of our children on Earth has failed to become a driving force behind individual and global action for most people, in most parts of the world. Despite significant progress in our awareness, understanding, and policy engagement in actions to solve global environmental challenges, manifested not least in UN conventions such as the Convention on Biodiversity (UNCBD) and the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted almost 30 years ago, we now face a planetary emergency. The aggregate human pressures on the planet fuelling this emergency are not only continuing to rise, they are reaching dangerous levels, putting us at risk of triggering irreversible loss of ecological functions and a manageable climate (Steffen et al., 2018). Perhaps a central reason for this failure to reach only a minority (< 20 percent) of citizens in countries around the world is our tendency to communicate the climate and nature crises as environmental problems, instead of talking about humans and solutions (Pihl et al., 2019). The coronavirus crisis is a devastating global health shock causing the most abrupt slowdown of the world economy since the global recession in the 1930s. It is also a major moment of learning and reckoning for all citizens in the world. If the world, from political leaders to city dwellers, is able to rise so fast, mobilizing collective action and trillions of US dollars in financial bail-out programmes to address one crisis – COVID-19 – why are we not able to rise in the face of the global climate crisis and nature crisis? These crises, unlike the coronavirus crisis, are putting the future of humanity on Earth at risk. As proposed by François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux, we need to focus much more on communicating the direct impacts of climate change on human well-being and health. After all, how many recall today that over a time span of only a few excessively hot months in the summer of 2003, 70 000 Europeans (Robine et al., 2008), predominantly elder and weak citizens, died as a result of the most devastating heatwave on record, very likely","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128448021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria","authors":"Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere, Adenike Titilope Oladosu","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00036","url":null,"abstract":"Fridays for Future in Uganda and Nigeria is a student and youth led platform that was launched in February 2019 following the call from Greta Thunberg to school strike. The call motivated us to start the strikes in Africa. We realised that this will help us increase attention when demanding urgent climate action from our leaders. From February 2019 to date, over 20,000 students added their voices to demands for urgent climate action and joint efforts to combat the climate breakdown.","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133552973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry?","authors":"S. Treyer","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00055","url":null,"abstract":"The food industry has been struggling for years with its impact on the environment. The impacts of input-intensive agricultural production on nature and the environment have been made obvious since the 1960s. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson from 1962 is still an extremely vivid account of the impacts of pesticides on nature, resonating with today’s scientific reports on the effects on pollinators. The algae blooms in Brittany’s coastal waters have been linked for a long time to a structural excess of intensive farming of pigs and chickens that has brought jobs and prosperity to a region previously suffering from underdevelopment, and emigration to other French regions. This has been well known for decades, but the trends of environment degradation have still not been reversed. One obvious explanation of the inability to change is that the downward trends in prices that farmers are being paid for their products make it nearly impossible to ask them to change their practices, because their economic viability is so close to a survival threshold. This is now all well known, and the food industry knows it must do something. What is also well known in the public debate is that power and value are not fairly allocated along the supply chain: farmers have much less power and a small share of the value compared to upstream players (the input industry) or downstream players (processing and retailing) because their negotiation power is scattered and thus weak. That gives enormous responsibility to the large companies of the food industry: they are in power; they have the tools at hand to foster change in the whole supply chain. The different phases of the sustainability strategy in a company like Danone are extremely interesting in this regard. In the late 2000s, this large company in the dairy industry developed a specific innovation and exploration fund, called the Livelihoods Funds, where impact investment1 projects were explored to finance sustainable agricultural practices, landscapes and food supply chains, particularly aiming at finding solutions for carbon storage and biodiversity pro-","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125857872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to Part VI","authors":"Alwyn Taylor","doi":"10.1007/978-1-349-09117-1_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09117-1_21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116559568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Communicators","authors":"Neville Hobson","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129786959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defenders","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781800371781.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781.00018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":256332,"journal":{"name":"Standing up for a Sustainable World","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128421203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}