Alain Goulard
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L'économie africaine 2024 : English version of Introduction & 1st Chapter
We are currently facing a systemic crisis, where geopolitical tensions and structural failures are inextricably linked, as are diplomacy and development. The growth trajectories that many countries have been following for almost two centuries are now running into problems: the environment being...
Published in January 2024
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Balancing Conservation and Community Welfare: Enhancing the Management of Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia
Marine protected areas have played an important role in conserving and restoring marine biodiversity that is threatened due to the climate change. Indonesia has expanded its marine protected areas, covering 411 locations with more than 28 million hectares (about 9% of its territorial waters)....
Published in January 2024
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Latin America: at the vanguard of sustainable development
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Socioeconomic and spatially-explicit assessment of Nature-related risks: the case of South Africa
This study introduces new methods for evaluating nature-related socioeconomic risks in the South African context, anchored on two main contributions. Firstly, it embarks on a multidimensional analysis of the exposure of several macro-financial and social variables to nature-related risks. Based...
Published in December 2023
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Infographic – Vietnam on the front lines of climate change
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Nature-Based Solutions for Hydropower Companies
While forest ecosystems provide invaluable services to water users, conservation efforts have fallen short of needs. Spending on nature is negligible compared to the $800bn invested annually by the water sector.To bridge the conservation funding gap, one solution could be the monetization of...
Published in November 2023
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Agriculture, Rural Development and Biodiversity - 2022 Activity Report
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Uganda: inventing the cities of tomorrow at school
In both Uganda and France, cities encounter similar challenges, including pollution and a scarcity of green spaces. To foster innovative urban planning for the future, students from a school in Kampala actively engage in idea-sharing sessions with their counterparts in France. This collaborative...
Published in November 2023
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International Financial Architecture and Financial Engineering for the Climate and Nature
The COP climate and biodiversity negotiations often focus on the issue of the financial resources that are mobilized or need to be mobilized for action and investment related to the climate or biodiversity. The succession of recent crises and global events (Covid-19, war in Ukraine, inflation...
Published in October 2023
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Nature and Biodiversity – 2022 Activity Report
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Evaluations report 2023
Every year, AFD evaluates a large proportion of its operations, giving priority to those that will be most useful to political, strategic and operational decision-makers.
By highlighting the key performance elements of AFD-financed operations, these analyses contribute to the public...
Published in August 2023
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WWF and AFD, a technical and strategic partnership
AFD works with a diverse range of actors in the field, including French CSOs of international stature.
AFD and WWF France have been partners for a long time, both through the financing of numerous programs but also through discussions and work around themes of mutual interest and common...
Published in July 2023
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Infographic – Our activity in favor of nature and biodiversity in 2022
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Preliminary comparative analysis of biodiversity measurement approaches for public development banks
This report is extracted from a study to prepare a comparative analysis of six biodiversity metrics submitted to Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) by the consultancy firm The Biodiversity Consultancy. This report aims to share...
Published in July 2023
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Strengthening climate services in Africa by incorporating local knowledge
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Low carbon strategies need to tackle the carbon footprint of materials production
Like Net-Zero GHG emissions (NZE) country goals which have recently multiplied, national low carbon strategies currently focus on reducing direct territorial emissions across sectors, such as domestic energy, transport, buildings and industry sectors. Doing so they do not tackle emissions...
Published in March 2023
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How can accounting reformulate the debate on natural capital and help implement its ecological approach?
This paper shows that the mainstream usage of ‘natural capital’ (NC) is incompatible with an ecological approach. It argues that accounting is relevant for (re)structuring the debate around NC and implementing an alternative approach to NC that works with an ecological perspective.It first...
Published in March 2023
In Gabon, any action aimed at developing the country's economy and infrastructure inevitably comes up against the sensitive issue of the preservation of forests, which cover more than 80% of the territory. Marthe Mapangou, AFD officer in Libreville, environmental economist and former adviser to...
Published in March 2023
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Gabon: Using forests without destroying them
Committed to the forests of Gabon since 2015, AFD Group supports forest operators and the country's administration in the transformation of the forest-wood sector. An unavoidable change in a country whose forest area covers 87% of the territory (22 million hectares). Gabon now has a strategic...
Published in March 2023