Frédéric Hache of the Green Finance Observatory gave an excellent presentation at the Our Land Our Nature Congress on the Financialisation of Nature.
Tag: Natural capital
“Malthus in Smith clothing”: Robert Fletcher’s critique of The Dasgupta Review
Robert Fletcher at Wageningen University has written a much-needed critique of the Dasgupta Review in the Journal of Political Ecology.
Banking on Nature: HSBC partners with Pollination for US$6 billion “natural capital” investment
By Chris Lang HSBC Global Asset Management and Pollination Group have announced a series of planned billion-dollar funds targetting “natural capital”. The new venture will be called HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management and aims to raise US$6 billion from institutional investors. But handing over conservation to bankers and neoliberal economists will be a disaster for…
The Financiali$ation of Nature
“Financialisation means the increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies.”
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.