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Régis Marodon

Financing Our Common Future

in the Time of Covid-19

Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, global health crises, species extinction and growing inequalities cause consternation and insecurity for many people, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. This book explains in simple but precise terms, aided by Ruedi Baur’s concise illustrations, what “finance” is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet.

Is there a way to convince society that a fundamental transition is necessary, or even more: that it is possible? Can sustainable finance help? Financing Our Common Future offers encouraging perspectives by showing how little-known groups of financial stakeholders, such as development banks, are actively working to make sustainable finance happen. The book invites you to enjoy a journey through a multitude of situations, to question our preconceptions and to open our minds to deeper thought, so we can envision ways of moving forward.

Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, global health crises, species extinction and growing inequalities cause consternation and insecurity for many people, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. This book explains in simple but precise terms, aided by Ruedi Baur’s concise illustrations, what “finance” is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet.

Is there a way to convince society that a fundamental transition is necessary, or even more: that it is possible? Can sustainable finance help? Financing Our Common Future offers encouraging perspectives by showing how little-known groups of financial stakeholders, such as development banks, are actively working to make sustainable finance happen. The book invites you to enjoy a journey through a multitude of situations, to question our preconceptions and to open our minds to deeper thought, so we can envision ways of moving forward.

English edition – also available in French

Author(s): Régis Marodon

Foreword by Rémy Rioux

Design: Ruedi Baur, Odyssée Khorsandian, Marine Clair, Cassandre Lepicard

12 × 16 cm, 4 ¾ × 6 ¼ in

252 pages, 210 illustrations

paperback

2021, 978-3-03778-668-0, English
Social Issues Graphic Visualization
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Régis Marodon

Régis Marodon is Senior Advisor on sustainable finance at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). With a Ph.D in Development Economics, he previously performed research
assignments for the World Bank. At the AFD he contributed extensively to development financing in many African, Mediterranean and Latin American countries, and was consecutively the director for Turkey, Mexico and Latin America. He joined the CEO advisory staff of the AFD in 2016 on sustainable finance matters and is an active member of many international networks on that issue.

Ruedi Baur

Ruedi Baur investigates concrete design issues in social contexts, focusing on the development of a comprehensive design approach. In practice, research and teaching, he focuses on orientation, identification, presentation and comprehensibility of complexity. He has developed internationally recognized projects with Intégral Ruedi Baur, now Integral Designers, 10-Milliards-Humains and Civic city. He is professor at the School of Art and Design, HEAD – Geneva, the ENSAD École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and the University of Strasbourg.

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