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Climate change, adaptation and sustainable development are inextricably linked. These issues haunt the developing world Parties to the multilateral environmental agreements, who are trying hard to implement policies and plans within their national jurisdictions. These policies are required to be linked with overall economic growth and development objectives. With limited technical workforce and financial capacity, the developing world is facing a grave challenge of attaining inclusive growth and sustainable development, besides developing resilience to climate change. A parallel stream of activities for these three objectives is not the solution for poor countries. Some countries are already on the path of establishing linkages among climate change, development and sustainability activities. However, while grappling with these issues, most are still stuck at different levels of governance. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have timelines until 2030. At least 60% of the NDCs, mostly those of the developing countries, contain an adaptation component which is closely linked to sustainable development. Convergence of NDC and SDG goals at the national level will assist in financing NDCs through SDG funds for achieving both mitigation and adaptation goals. The paper discusses barriers to good governance around these issues and opportunities available to link them at the national level. This includes improvement of knowledge base, and mainstreaming finance for both, adaptation and sustainable development, besides serving national needs. The trick is to include adaptation and sustainability into the developmental planning. Journal d’Economie, de Management, d’Environnement et de Droit, Vol 3, No 1 (2020)

From Rio to Rio: A global carbon price signal to escape the great climate inconsistency Two decades after the 1992 Rio Conference,we must admit to collective failure in combating human induced climate change. We cannot escape serious climate disruption if we keep going down that road. We must change direction, and we must move quickly. To this end, we call in this paper for a fine tuning of the international negotiations on climate. We propose refocusing these international efforts on negotiating a global carbon price signal, harmonized in principle but flexible in practice, instead of doggedly spending the next few years attempting to convince countries to accept stricter national targets for quantitative reduction of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

This article sheds light on the issue of financing the 2030 Agenda. First of all, we highlight the analytical inconsistency of market financing strategies based on neoclassical theory. We then put forward the elements of an alternative strategy based on the issuance of a new category of financial instruments: the ecological sovereign security (ESS). Then, we develop "Philia 1.1", a new 32-equation stock-flow coherent model (SFC) to analyze the effects of issuing TSE on macroeconomic dynamics and the ecological transition process. Simulations suggest that the issuance of TSEs could help to drive an expansionary macroeconomic dynamic beneficial to employees, while embedding the additional activity in new ecological and social criteria. TSE emissions could therefore play a driving role in the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Cet article apporte l’éclairage de la Théorie Financière Écologique sur la question du financement de l’Agenda 2030. Nous mettons en évidence l’incohérence analytique du financement par les marchés, fondé sur la théorie néoclassique. Nous avançons une stratégie alternative reposant sur l’émission d’une nouvelle catégorie d’instruments financiers : le titre souverain écologique (TSE). Puis, nous développons « Philia 1.1 » un nouveau modèle stock-flux cohérent. Les simulations suggèrent que l’émission de TSE pourrait impulser une dynamique macroéconomique expansionniste bénéfique aux salariés tout en encastrant le surcroit d’activité dans de nouveaux critères écologiques et sociaux. L’émission de TSE pourrait jouer un rôle moteur dans la poursuite des Objectifs du Développement Durable (ODD).

Eco-anthropology in Lower Loire river : collectives to the test of the tide, the mild, the dry At the mouth of the Loire, from the upstream of Nantes to Saint-Nazaire, the floodplain is composed of various wetlands. This area is the site of many marshland activities, subject to the hazards of the "last wild river in Europe" : variations in discharge, tides, sedimentary and biological flows. Eco-anthropological research is currently underway in this area, aimed at describing some practices and uses, and their place in the effective management of the Lower Loire ecosystem. The research approach is inspired by a symmetrical anthropology that leaves place for non-humans, considering a hybrid sociality in which the categories of nature and culture are set aside. It is based mainly on ethnographic materials acquired during field surveys. Through this paper, we pay attention to the ways in which some of the collectives are recomposed. These assemblages are tested by the increase in the oscillating volume of the tide induced by the intensification of dredging in the estuary since 1976, as well as by the consequences of the episode of mild winter weather and insufficient rainfall, particular to the 2016-1017 period. We think that the « mere description » of these singular relations is a way of co-producing knowledge with the beings of these hybrid collectives, and that reporting it may strengthen their consistency. We present a table of different modes of coexistence of these collectives of things, beasts, humans and plants in the trial of strength of the Capitalocene, and conclude by emphasizing the necessity to develop there a relational ecology through the practice of an « art of attention ». Keywords : eco-anthropology, Loire estuary, Brière, Brivet, hybrid collectives, low water, climate change, planning, Capitalocene À l'embouchure de la Loire, de l'amont de Nantes à Saint-Nazaire, le lit majeur du fleuve est composé de diverses zones humides. Cet espace est le lieu de nombreuses activités palustres, soumises aux aléas du fleuve : variations de débits, marées, flux sédimentaires et biologiques. Une recherche éco-anthropologique est actuellement en cours sur cet espace, visant à décrire certaines pratiques et certains usages, et leur place dans la gestion effective de l'écosystème de la Basse-Loire. La démarche de recherche s'inspire d'une anthropologie symétrique laissant la place aux non-humains, considérant une socialité hybride où les catégories de nature et de culture sont mises de côté. Il s'appuie principalement sur les matériaux ethnographiques acquis lors d'enquêtes de terrain. Dans cet article, nous prêtons attention aux évolutions de ces agencements face à l‘augmentation du volume oscillant de la marée induit par l'intensification des dragages de l'estuaire depuis 1976, ainsi qu'aux effets de l'épisode de douceur hivernale et de déficit pluviométrique particulier à la période 2016-1017. Nous pensons que la « simple description » de ces relations singulières est un mode de co-production du savoir avec les êtres qui peuplent ces collectifs hybrides, et que le fait d'en rendre compte est susceptible de renforcer leur cohérence. Nous présentons un tableau de différents modes de coexistence de ces collectifs de choses, de bêtes, d'hommes et de plantes à l'épreuve du Capitalocène, et concluons en soulignant la nécessité d'y développer l'écologie des relations par la pratique d'un « art de l'attention ». Mots-clés : éco-anthropologie, estuaire de la Loire, Brière, Brivet, étiage, changement climatique, aménagement, collectifs hybrides, Capitalocène