Mapping Environmental Trade-offs

Integration of Economic Interests in the Making of Environmental Governance

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event · 3 March 2026

Inaugural Seminar — Mapping Climate Trade-offs in the Americas

Economic interests and the making of environmental governance

Inaugural seminar poster — Mapping climate trade-offs in the Americas, 3–4 March 2026

Practical information

  • Date and time: 3 March 2026, 14:00 — 4 March 2026, 18:00 (GMT+1, Paris time)
  • Format: Hybrid — in person and online
  • Venue: Room 5.023, Bâtiment Recherche Sud, Campus Condorcet (Paris-Aubervilliers)

With the support of CREDA, PRODIG, and the Institut des Amériques.

About the seminar

This structuring project analyses the forms through which economic interests — particularly those stemming from extractive, industrial, and agro-industrial sectors — are integrated into environmental and climate governance arenas. Based on fieldwork conducted in Latin America and North America, it examines indirect, procedural, and legitimized practices of influence exercised by companies, consultants, experts, and sectoral representatives. By combining ethnography, network analysis, and collective observation, the project proposes a relational reading of ecological transition as a space of compromise, attenuation of ambitions, and reformulation of objectives.

Programme

Inaugural seminar programme — Day 1 and Day 2

Day 1 — Framing climate trade-offs

  • 14:00 – 15:00 Introduction and roundtable
  • 15:00 – 16:30 Workshops
    1. What? Conceptualizing climate trade-offs, accommodations and obstructions
    2. Who? Actors, trajectories and circulations across scales
    3. How? Mechanisms, policy instruments and governance arrangements
  • 17:00 – 18:30 Collective restitution

Day 2 — Investigating climate trade-offs

  • 14:00 – 14:30 Recap of the first day
  • 14:30 – 16:00 Workshops
    1. Localizing the international and internationalizing the local — Methodological challenges of multi-scale analysis
    2. Comparing contexts: North-North, South-North, South-South — Methodological challenges of multi-case studies analysis
    3. Following the resources — Methodological challenges of multi-sector analysis
  • 16:30 – 18:00 Collective restitution
  • 18:00 – 18:30 Conclusions of the inaugural seminar

Registration

The seminar is hybrid and open by registration with the organizers. To register and receive the videoconference link, please contact the organizers:

  • Livia Kalil (CREDA / LIEPP) — liviamaria.kalil@gmail.com
  • Léa Lebeaupin-Salamon (CREDA) — lea.lebeaupin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
  • Louise Rebeyrolle (IRD / CREDA) — louise.rebeyrolle@ird.fr