Publications de Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

IRGC (2023) Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies - 3. Guidance to distinct actors

To support economic development, governments and industries in major countries are committing to massive new technological investments before, or perhaps without, undertaking a comprehensive assessment of their environmental impacts. Existing policy framew ...

International Risk Governance Center2023

Gaps review and improvement pathways in the assessment and management of collision risk in low Earth orbit

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Romain Buchs, Emmanuelle Brigitte Marie David

There is growing concern that collision risk in low Earth orbit is inadequately managed, necessitating new strategies. Based on discussions held at a multistakeholder workshop organized by EPFL in May 2021, this paper presents some challenges, or governanc ...

2023

IRGC (2023) Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies - 2. Edited volume

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

EPFL2023

IRGC (2022) Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technologies - 1. Workshop report

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report assumes that something can be done to guide technology developers and others towards producing technology that does not cause indirect and delayed damage to the environment. It explores the extent to which environmental sustainability concerns ...

EPFL2022

Nine recommendations for the governance of AI systems

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Some governance functions traditionally performed by humans are increasingly informed and sometimes automatically executed by machine learning algorithms (governance by machine learning) to benefit society. Therefore, it is necessary to think also about th ...

EPFL2022

Risk governance and the low-carbon transition

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This IRGC policy brief focuses on the risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon society and economy. It is based on a multi-stakeholder expert workshop held in September 2020. It incorporates views and insights from academia, industry, non-gover ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2021

Using stratospheric aerosol injection to alleviate global warming: when?

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), a type of solar radiation modification (SRM), has the potential to reduce global warming caused by excessive greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. However, there is currently widespread opposition to it, because deployi ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC).2021

Collision risk from space debris: Current status, challenges and response strategies

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Romain Buchs

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2021

Combatting climate change through a portfolio of approaches

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Given the urgency of deploying all possible ways to combat climate change, and in light of lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak that it was a mistake to ignore signals and not prepare for worst-case scenarios, this article suggests that tech ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2021

lnternational governance issues on climate engineering Information for policymakers

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Some climate engineering technologies are being developed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide removal, CDR), which is expected to contribute to reducing and preventing climate change. Some other technologies (solar radiation modification, SRM ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2020

Public Strategies for Artificial Intelligence: Which Value Drivers?

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Gianluigi Viscusi

We question the values that inform the artificial intelligence (AI) strategies developed by governments and institutions at the global level. In particular, we investigate the connection between governments? and institutions? fundamental values, second-ord ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Building biosecurity for synthetic biology

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

The fast-paced field of synthetic biology is fundamentally changing the global biosecurity framework. Current biosecurity regulations and strategies are based on previous governance paradigms for pathogen-oriented security, recombinantDNAresearch, and broa ...

2020

Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Lessons from Insurance

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This policy brief suggests five factors and describes use cases to guide and inspire attempts to develop resilience-based insurance solutions and to enhance a positive feedback between insurance and resilience. ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2019

Applying Resilience to Hybrid Threats

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Governing the Use of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies: Not One-Size-Fits-All

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) have the capacity to improve how many companies and organizations conduct transactions or store information securely, among many other potential benefits. However, their development and implementation d ...

2018

IRGC Guidelines for the Governance of Systemic Risks

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu, Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

IRGC’s guidelines for the governance of systemic risks addresses the question of how to deal with systemic risks in the context of system transitions, i.e., in situations that require adaptation to new context conditions or transformation of an organisatio ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2018

The Economics of Precision Medicine

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu, Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report from a multi-stakeholder workshop on the ‘Economics of precision medicine’ addresses the issues of cost-effectiveness, as well as the need to revise how economic and social value can be valorised and financed, and to develop new business models ...

EPFL IRGC2018

Governance of Trust in Precision Medicine

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Kujtesë Bejtullahu Michalopoulos

Following up a two-day invitation-only expert workshop in Geneva on the subject of Trust and Precision Medicine, IRGC published a workshop report in April 2018. This report addresses the concept of trust and conditions of trustworthiness in each of the thr ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2018

Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Connected Medical and Health Devices and Connected Vehicles

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

IRGC organised in 2016 an expert workshop on 'Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits in the Internet of Things (IoT), applied to connected vehicles and medical devices. In those sectors, connectivity improves both safety and vulnerability, but cybersec ...

International Risk Governance Center2017

A roadmap for the development of precision medicine

Gérard Escher, Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

The purpose of the roadmap proposed by IRGC is to recommend a structured process that organisations can follow in their transition towards the development of precision medicine. The process is adaptable, and each organisation should further develop it to a ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2017