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Transforming the Financial Sector to Confront the Biodiversity Crisis

Article de Lucie Lambreth (MS EnvIM 2023-24) Introduction The world is facing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Biodiversity, encompasses ecosystems, species, and genetic diversity. It has been declining globally at an unprecedented rate in human history, and projections for next decades are alarming. In its recent report [1], the WWF outlines a catastrophic decline of 73% in the average size of monitored wildlife populations over just 50 years. The

Doughnut Economics in Action : The City of Amsterdam Embracing the Model

Article de Hssine Benhrouz (MS EnvIM 2022-23) Introduction For over seven decades, the field of economics has been predominantly fixated on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the primary metric of progress, measuring a nation's economic health based solely on its output. But "what if we started economics not with its long-established theories, but with humanity’s long-term goals, and then sought out the economic thinking that would enable us to achieve