Sylvain Maechler
@sylvainmaechler.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at Uni Ottawa
PhD from Uni Lausanne
International political economy & Environmental politics
Green accounting, Biodiversity markets, Central banks
http://sylvainmaechler.ch/
PhD from Uni Lausanne
International political economy & Environmental politics
Green accounting, Biodiversity markets, Central banks
http://sylvainmaechler.ch/
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New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition"
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A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition - CETEx
This report recommends three principles for coping with the political uncertainty faced by central bankers.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition"
cetex.org/publications...
cetex.org/publications...
Looking great!
Really excited for the panel I’m organising on biodiversity finance, featuring great papers by Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social , Maud Borie, Roelien van der Wel, and co-authors like Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social
Really excited for the panel I’m organising on biodiversity finance, featuring great papers by Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social , Maud Borie, Roelien van der Wel, and co-authors like Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social
Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Looking great!
Really excited for the panel I’m organising on biodiversity finance, featuring great papers by Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social , Maud Borie, Roelien van der Wel, and co-authors like Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social
Really excited for the panel I’m organising on biodiversity finance, featuring great papers by Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social , Maud Borie, Roelien van der Wel, and co-authors like Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social
After 1.5 fantastic years in Ottawa @cepi-cips.bsky.social with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social, I’m excited to continue my postdoc in Switzerland at @gvagrad-ggc.bsky.social, pursuing my research on the int. political economy of green finance & teaching global environmental politics!
shorturl.at/fMnIH
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Sylvain Maechler
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June 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
After 1.5 fantastic years in Ottawa @cepi-cips.bsky.social with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social, I’m excited to continue my postdoc in Switzerland at @gvagrad-ggc.bsky.social, pursuing my research on the int. political economy of green finance & teaching global environmental politics!
shorturl.at/fMnIH
shorturl.at/fMnIH
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New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
May 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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👇Same here👆
Could not be more excited for part I of our workshop on the socio-economics of loss and decline happening @mpifg.bsky.social today and tomorrow, with @vapunkt.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social!
So many amazing presentations from brilliant colleagues 🤩🤩
So many amazing presentations from brilliant colleagues 🤩🤩
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
👇Same here👆
Looking forward to participating and presenting our paper with @christianelliott.bsky.social on nature risk scenarios!
We just finalized the program for our PDW for our SER special issue on the Socio-Economics of Loss and Decline in the Climate Crisis.
Super excited that this is actually happening very soon, together with @vapunkt.bsky.social, @trgn.bsky.social and this amazing crowd of scholars!
Super excited that this is actually happening very soon, together with @vapunkt.bsky.social, @trgn.bsky.social and this amazing crowd of scholars!
April 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Looking forward to participating and presenting our paper with @christianelliott.bsky.social on nature risk scenarios!
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New article!
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
New article!
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
I’m thrilled to see this article published with a fantastic group of scholars!
What role can central banks play in addressing climate change today? In our just-published article, we argue that we are at a critical juncture in which the future is highly indeterminate. Written with @matpaterson.bsky.social + 14 other amazing scholars /1
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises
In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I’m thrilled to see this article published with a fantastic group of scholars!
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Huzzah! My latest book is now published! It offers an introduction to the contemporary debate about the relationship between growth and environmental sustainability. I have a few free copies I can send students and ECRs - if you want to enter the draw, reply with 🙋🙋♀️🙋🏻♂️
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March 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Huzzah! My latest book is now published! It offers an introduction to the contemporary debate about the relationship between growth and environmental sustainability. I have a few free copies I can send students and ECRs - if you want to enter the draw, reply with 🙋🙋♀️🙋🏻♂️
elgaronline.com/view/book/97...
elgaronline.com/view/book/97...
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A quick summary 🧵 !
🌍🌍🌍 @kprodani.bsky.social and I make two new claims, provocatively stated: (i) Quantifying climate transition risk is easy, biodiversity is not (ii) The most recent regulatory strategies entirely escape the "risk-based approach" said to dominate prudential policy. /1
🌍🌍🌍 @kprodani.bsky.social and I make two new claims, provocatively stated: (i) Quantifying climate transition risk is easy, biodiversity is not (ii) The most recent regulatory strategies entirely escape the "risk-based approach" said to dominate prudential policy. /1
📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk?
We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it.
#openaccess:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it.
#openaccess:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A quick summary 🧵 !
🌍🌍🌍 @kprodani.bsky.social and I make two new claims, provocatively stated: (i) Quantifying climate transition risk is easy, biodiversity is not (ii) The most recent regulatory strategies entirely escape the "risk-based approach" said to dominate prudential policy. /1
🌍🌍🌍 @kprodani.bsky.social and I make two new claims, provocatively stated: (i) Quantifying climate transition risk is easy, biodiversity is not (ii) The most recent regulatory strategies entirely escape the "risk-based approach" said to dominate prudential policy. /1
For early birds at the @isanet.bsky.social Chicago, come tomorrow morning for our presentation on Biodiversity Scenarios and Climate’s (Un)Learned Lessons with @christianelliott.bsky.social
Other great papers including from @krdgnydn.bsky.social
Other great papers including from @krdgnydn.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
For early birds at the @isanet.bsky.social Chicago, come tomorrow morning for our presentation on Biodiversity Scenarios and Climate’s (Un)Learned Lessons with @christianelliott.bsky.social
Other great papers including from @krdgnydn.bsky.social
Other great papers including from @krdgnydn.bsky.social
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Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species
Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species
Study shows funding bias towards animals like rhino while other endangered species including amphibians and algae disregarded
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February 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species
I wrote a short summary of my presentation last week on nature-related risk and biodiversity finance @uottawa.bsky.social
Have a look!
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/02/18/t...
Have a look!
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/02/18/t...
February 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I wrote a short summary of my presentation last week on nature-related risk and biodiversity finance @uottawa.bsky.social
Have a look!
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/02/18/t...
Have a look!
www.cips-cepi.ca/2025/02/18/t...
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A week prior to Trump's inauguration the Federal Reserve quit the Network for Greening the Financial System, the NGFS. I wrote about what the NGFS is and what they promote within the green central banking debates for PPE Sydney.
Fabulous to welcome @krdgnydn.bsky.social as a new author on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) — banking on climate change?
www.ppesydney.net/green-centra...
@clairerhiannon.bsky.social
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@clairerhiannon.bsky.social
Green central banking - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Climate crisis and environmental degradation is an undeniable reality for most central banks around the world. What does the most recent central bank coalition, the Network for Greening the Financial ...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A week prior to Trump's inauguration the Federal Reserve quit the Network for Greening the Financial System, the NGFS. I wrote about what the NGFS is and what they promote within the green central banking debates for PPE Sydney.
I’m thrilled to share this news from the latest Research Bulletin that my @snsf-ch.bsky.social postdoc return grant has been accepted! I’ll be staying for a year from June 2025 at the @gvagrad.bsky.social Global Governance Centre to continue my work on central banks & global environmental governance
January 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I’m thrilled to share this news from the latest Research Bulletin that my @snsf-ch.bsky.social postdoc return grant has been accepted! I’ll be staying for a year from June 2025 at the @gvagrad.bsky.social Global Governance Centre to continue my work on central banks & global environmental governance
Excited to share my latest research on the emergence of nature-related risks in finance and their impact on global biodiversity governance at the University of Ottawa in two weeks!
➡️The Rise of Nature-Related Risks and the Climatization of Biodiversity
Featuring @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, CIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Moderated by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social
Learn more >>> bit.ly/3PJGlUh
Featuring @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, CIPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Moderated by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social
Learn more >>> bit.ly/3PJGlUh
January 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Excited to share my latest research on the emergence of nature-related risks in finance and their impact on global biodiversity governance at the University of Ottawa in two weeks!
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I’m very excited to have this open access article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’m very excited to have this open access article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Building a starter pack on climate change and finance.
It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps!
go.bsky.app/8XqqNtg
It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps!
go.bsky.app/8XqqNtg
January 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Building a starter pack on climate change and finance.
It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps!
go.bsky.app/8XqqNtg
It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps!
go.bsky.app/8XqqNtg
A great opportunity to bring back this article I published last year in @gepjournal.bsky.social
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direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A great opportunity to bring back this article I published last year in @gepjournal.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
And it has now secured a permanent home in Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2024 of @ejir.bsky.social !
Fantastic to see this out! In our O/A article with
@jcgraz.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, we draw on Frank Knight’s analysis to explain how international actors claim reliable knowledge for shaping future states of the world in times of crisis. A short 🧵 1/9
@jcgraz.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, we draw on Frank Knight’s analysis to explain how international actors claim reliable knowledge for shaping future states of the world in times of crisis. A short 🧵 1/9
While the term ‘polycrisis' has gained currency to define the world we live in, how do international actors face uncertainty in times of crisis?
Read about it in @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social and @jcgraz.bsky.social ‘s new EJIR article: t1p.de/yvt6w
Read about it in @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social and @jcgraz.bsky.social ‘s new EJIR article: t1p.de/yvt6w
November 22, 2024 at 11:04 AM
And it has now secured a permanent home in Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2024 of @ejir.bsky.social !
With Biodiversity COP 16 far behind and Climate COP 29 now underway, here’s a good summary of the former: shorturl.at/I6iPu.
Loved this reported quote: “In 2010, they killed the idea of biodiversity credits. Nobody thought they would come back like a zombie.”
Loved this reported quote: “In 2010, they killed the idea of biodiversity credits. Nobody thought they would come back like a zombie.”
COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia - Carbon Brief
The COP16 biodiversity summit came to an abrupt halt after countries failed to reach consensus...
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November 11, 2024 at 6:08 PM
With Biodiversity COP 16 far behind and Climate COP 29 now underway, here’s a good summary of the former: shorturl.at/I6iPu.
Loved this reported quote: “In 2010, they killed the idea of biodiversity credits. Nobody thought they would come back like a zombie.”
Loved this reported quote: “In 2010, they killed the idea of biodiversity credits. Nobody thought they would come back like a zombie.”
Fantastic to see this out! In our O/A article with
@jcgraz.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, we draw on Frank Knight’s analysis to explain how international actors claim reliable knowledge for shaping future states of the world in times of crisis. A short 🧵 1/9
@jcgraz.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, we draw on Frank Knight’s analysis to explain how international actors claim reliable knowledge for shaping future states of the world in times of crisis. A short 🧵 1/9
While the term ‘polycrisis' has gained currency to define the world we live in, how do international actors face uncertainty in times of crisis?
Read about it in @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social and @jcgraz.bsky.social ‘s new EJIR article: t1p.de/yvt6w
Read about it in @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social and @jcgraz.bsky.social ‘s new EJIR article: t1p.de/yvt6w
February 2, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Fantastic to see this out! In our O/A article with
@jcgraz.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, we draw on Frank Knight’s analysis to explain how international actors claim reliable knowledge for shaping future states of the world in times of crisis. A short 🧵 1/9
@jcgraz.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, we draw on Frank Knight’s analysis to explain how international actors claim reliable knowledge for shaping future states of the world in times of crisis. A short 🧵 1/9
Very happy to see our article in RIPE pedagogical section published with @jcgraz.bsky.social JM Chenou & C Urrego-Sandoval!
We propose concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom through student-led activities. 🧵 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We propose concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom through student-led activities. 🧵 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 24, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Very happy to see our article in RIPE pedagogical section published with @jcgraz.bsky.social JM Chenou & C Urrego-Sandoval!
We propose concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom through student-led activities. 🧵 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We propose concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom through student-led activities. 🧵 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....