Nature Positive: Simon Counsell explains how this new phrase could open the floodgates of endless corporate greenwashing.
Tag: Biodiversity Offsets
Financialisation of nature: A “neoliberal and doomed approach to conservation”
Frédéric Hache of the Green Finance Observatory gave an excellent presentation at the Our Land Our Nature Congress on the Financialisation of Nature.
The Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (BVRio): Trading away Brazil’s forests
Founded in October 2011, the Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro, BVRio) is a market for trading “environmental assets”, including carbon credits, forest credits, industrial effluent credits, tire disposal credits, and recycling credits.
Banking Nature. Or cashing in on the destruction of nature
Banking Nature, a new documentary film,looks at the Brave New World of species banking, biodiversity offsets, wetlands credits, and putting a price on nature.
Stop biodiversity offsets: Thousands sign letter to the European Commission
More than 9,000 people and 67 organisations have signed on to a letter urging the European Commission to drop its plans for biodiversity offsetting. Biodiversity offsets would “harm nature and people” and “give power to those who destroy nature for profit”, the letter states.