Director of publications
Laurence Tubiana
Editor
Pierre Barthélemy
Translation
Anna Kiff
Publications
*Adapting to Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Some Questions and Answers. Raphaël Billé
This summary presents some of the main findings from CIRCE's first stakeholders meeting, organized by IDDRI on 18 and 19 October 2007. The paper takes stock of the need for “adaptation” in the Mediterranean, its adaptation capacity, the instruments for its implementation, and the way in which the need for adaptation may be an opportunity for the region.
Download Synthèse 01/2008
* L’accès aux services essentiels dans les pays en développement au cœur des politiques urbaines, Carine Barbier, Pierre-Noël Giraut, Joël Ruet, Marie-Hélène Zérah
IDDRI, with the scientific assistance of Cerna- École des Mines de Paris, organized a monthly seminar, “Access to basic services in urban areas in developing countries” on the technological and socio-economic conditions and the urban dynamics of the development of the provision of basic services in developing and emerging countries. This analysis presents the main findings of the 12 sessions of this seminar.
Download Analyse 04/2007
* Dancing with Brazil, South Africa, India and China.
Jean-Frédéric Morin
In this article, Jean-Frédéric Morin reviews the most recent changes in trade relations between developed and emerging countries (BRICS for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and their political implications. A prominent trend made spectacular by the rise of emerging countries and the proliferation of bilateral trade agreements over the last 10 years.
Download Idées pour le débat 02/2008
What governance for high seas biodiversity?
What governance for high seas biodiversity?
The high seas, an area beyond national jurisdiction, represent 64% of the total surface of seas and oceans. Long governed by a principle of freedom established at a time when the marine environment was still a vast unexplored desert, it is a global public good par excellence, and is currently threatened by the intensity and diversity of anthropogenic uses.
Indeed, the exponential growth of the activities traditionally conducted in this area (international shipping, the exploitation of fishery resources, etc.) and the development of new ways of using these resources (oil and gas extraction, bioprospecting, etc.) place the high seas at the heart of many different issues that threaten the exceptional biodiversity they contain, and which the scientific community is only just beginning to assess.
Henceforth, at a time when discussions on the establishment of a truly international environmental governance are growing in number, it will become essential to determine an appropriate political, legal and institutional framework for the sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction.
Organized in partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Agence Nationale des Aires Marines Protégées (French marine protected areas agency) and the French Global Environment Fund (FFEM), the international seminar “Towards a new governance of high seas biodiversity”, to be held in Monaco on 20 and 21 March 2008, will bring together high-level international experts in order to examine potential ways to improve biodiversity governance in these high seas areas.