We study the relationship between culture and environmental conservation through the lens of deforestation. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 2001-2021, we show that changes of national leaders affect deforestation in a way that depends on the environmental culture of their ethnic group’s. Our results suggest that culture is an important lever for environmental conservation in Africa.
This article analyses the role that central banks could play in dealing with stranded « brown »assets as a result of the ecological transition.The estimates provided thtough a database that we are building for the analyses suggest that central banks, as « liquidators of last resort » of stranded asset markets, would inject volumes of liquidity comparable to those they injected to deal with previous crises.
