Thank you for everything, Jane. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

A naive question: don't we abandon our copyrights to editors when we publish (e.g. elsevier)? And therefore Elsevier can claim the settlment instead of us?

Des données qui ne seront pas a nettoyer, c'est plutôt pas mal?

"Nous pourrons compter le nbre d’oiseaux tués, ce qui nous permettra ensuite de mieux adapter le nbre de prélèvements", insiste le cabinet de la ministre.

Et si on proposait aussi que l'on abatte tous les arbres des forets pour avoir un inventaire juste.

QUEL ENFER!

www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

Visez un peu le niveau de cet "éminent" député RN.

Si son parti avait la majorité, monsieur Jacobelli serait ministre.

Mais qui a envie de confier le pouvoir à un homme de 55 ans qui fait les mêmes blagues pas drôles qu'un ado qui en a 40 de moins ?

Cette lourdeur au secours... 🫠

This is a fascinating working paper. Congratulations!

Un grand bravo à ma collègue du @cired.bsky.social Lauriane Mouysset, qui fait partie des 4 économistes nommés par le jury du Prix du meilleur jeune économiste 2025 !

Entretien avec Perrine Mouterde de @lemonde.fr :
www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Site web :
laurianemouysset.wordpress.com/research/

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

PhD scholarship at our institute in the field of economics and developement @iobua.bsky.social www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Hi #econsky and conservation friends, if you need a hopeful story, the RCT we completed in eastern DRC might be for you. It is about a viable path to clean (electric) cooking, human development, and the protection of endangered wildlife, including mountain gorillas 🧵🧪 tinyurl.com/4jccmcaw

Do they say which embassies are "non essential" in th document? Thanks ! (Sorry, I can't access the article)

Poke @laracinecarree22.bsky.social @rsoub.bsky.social

This is a much better summary of our study ! :-)

This work exemplifies Virunga's approach toward people-centered conservation. Voila voila. All of this is joint work with incredible co-authors. We thank the dedicated field team and our supportive donors. We welcome your thoughts on this first draft!

The people in eastern DRC face immense hardship. Illegal charcoal trafficking isn't central to the conflict dynamics, but it remains part of the complex equation. I'm sharing this draft at a particularly meaningful moment. Virunga, Africa's oldest park, celebrates its centennial on April 21st!

The paper explores much more, including two sub-interventions examining adoption mechanisms, but this thread is already long enough. Notably, a pro-environmental messaging campaign significantly increased technology adoption.

4️⃣Perhaps quite promising for policy makers: we find evidence that power companies can subsidize initial purchases and recover costs through increased electricity sales and carbon finance, requiring just an initial investment rather than ongoing support.

For biodiversity conservation, we quantify potential benefits for gorillas’ quality of life using animal welfare economics. Since deforestation directly threatens their survival, the positive effects are really substantial.

3️⃣ Charcoal consumption falls by 34%, directly reducing deforestation pressure on the park. The climate impact is significant: we abate 1tCO2eq for less than $20 using conservative estimates.

2️⃣Household energy spending decreases by 30% when (partially) switching meals to electric cooking, with reduced cooking time. (No health effects were observed, consistent with other recent studies.)

We tracked outcomes over 12 months and the results are promising! The benefits after 1 year exceed the subsidy cost (and EPCs lifespan is 5 years). Some details:

1️⃣ Adoption is high (85%) and sustained—measured with of over 1 million electricity transaction data (see the graph).

We thought their might be a business model in which the electricity company subsidizes the purchase of the EPC, and reimburses itself though increase electricity revenues (+ carbon finance). Aka, vertical integration, razor and blade type of model. We tested this approach.

We worked with Virunga Energies, a private electricity company owned by the park. Together, we provided Electric Pressure Cookers to 1,000 randomly selected households in Goma. EPC are just great for many African cuisines, but they remain accessible to a niche because of their high price.