This book brings together the lectures notes from the seminars held at the Finance and Sustainable Development Chair from 2007 to 2009. The first part is concerned with climate change policies, with particular emphasis on the relevance of traditional economic concepts and methodologies...

The emergence of the concept of ’sustainable development’leads companies to redefine the notion of performance and to implement practices to manage it.An exploratory research, undertaken in five multinational companies, highlights changes in their management systems and shows that companies...

La mise en place de quotas d'émission de gaz à effet de serre aura des répercussions sur la rentabilité de nombreuses entreprises. On les appelle couramment les "droits à polluer". Le terme est choquant: comme s'il existait un droit à détruire l'environnement! En réalité, le système...