Insights
Our analysis does not stop at mission reports
Derrière le climat — podcast
A French-language podcast on the social consequences of international climate policy, rooted first and foremost in the global Souths. First season from January 2027, two episodes a month: one analysis, one interview.
Behind every instrument — a conservation mechanism, an adaptation fund, a community consultation, a climate finance flow — there are people whose lives change. The podcast follows that: who decides, who gains, who loses, and what these mechanisms produce once they leave the negotiating room. It is not science communication, it is not advocacy, and it does not chase the news cycle.
Climate Justice Dispatch — writing
A newsletter on climate justice and the blind spots of international aid, written by Marine Gauthier. The register is freer than a report, deliberately so: some things are better said outside institutional formats.
- Solidarity Without Applause — on how the Global North keeps confusing accountability with ingratitude, and solidarity with being liked.
- Renting the Past With Public Money — snow cannons, sea walls, air conditioning: the strange politics of adapting without changing anything.
- The Revolutionary Act of Shutting Up — what stakeholder consultation has in common with the lost art of staying quiet.
- Some People Don't Care About “The Climate” — why climate abstraction mobilises less than what people can see.
- The Population Panic Is Back (and It's Climate-Washed) — the quiet return of population control in climate policy and climate funding.
Publications
Research
What participatory three-dimensional modelling actually delivers in terms of epistemic justice, based on a pilot exercise in the Itombwe Nature Reserve and four years of follow-up.
Download (EN, PDF)A political ethnography of Mai-Ndombe: a critique of climate governance that privileges international voices over those of forest-dependent peoples.
Download (EN, PDF)Reports
A study carried out with partner organisations in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, the DRC and the Republic of Congo, and presented at national workshops before publication.
Download (EN, PDF) Télécharger (FR, PDF)An analysis of how civil society and Indigenous peoples were engaged and structured within the national REDD+ process.
Download (FR, PDF)Seventy-five pages on the stacking of REDD+ initiatives in a single province, and what it produces for the people who live there.
Download (EN, PDF)A community-led project, the difficulties encountered and the solutions put in place.
Download (FR, PDF)Ten years of participatory mapping experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Download (EN, PDF) Télécharger (FR, PDF)The three-dimensional model as a planning and management tool, built with the communities of Ilibo, Kigogo and Kitamba.
Download (EN, PDF) Télécharger (FR, PDF)A world tour of Indigenous peoples and protected areas, in maps and reportage.
Download (PDF)Press and commentary
- COP après COP, les peuples autochtones sont de plus en plus visibles mais toujours inaudibles — The Conversation, 5 November 2025 (in French)
- Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire — Allegra Laboratory, September 2025
- Tourism starting to bleed the Lickan Antay people of the Atacama desert dry — The Guardian, August 2016
- Clashing over conservation: saving Congo's forest and its Pygmies — The Guardian, August 2016
- 'We have nothing but our reindeer': conservation threatens ruination for Mongolia's Dukha — The Guardian, August 2016
Teaching
Marine Gauthier teaches environmental geopolitics at UCLy, Alpes Europe campus in Annecy: “Geopolitics of small powers” and “Empires and the Environment: an environmental history of empires, antiquity to the present”. She has taught international humanitarian law and human rights at the Sorbonne, and advocacy before global institutions at EFAP.