Apr 05
20170
Conservation International, Nature Conservancy
Conservation Conservation International Goldman Sachs. IIED Mining neoliberalism The Nature Conservancy WBCSD
"Conservationists are turning a blind eye to their own past and to the working of neoliberal capitalism, showing a remarkable willingness to entertain future risks to biodiversity from the outworking of neoliberalism."
Jan 29
20170
Carbon Markets | REDD, Nature Conservancy, United Nations
"Natura Capital" Arizona Arizona Audubon BHP Billiton BirdLife International Carbon Offsets Commodification of the Commons DoD Ecological Economics Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Ecosystem Services Externalities financialization of nature International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Millennium Ecosystem Assessment REDD Resolution Copper Mining (RCM) Rio Tinto Sonoran Institute (SI) The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) The National Audubon Society The Nature Conservancy USDA Walton Family Foundation
"Multinational mining companies, Rio Tinto in particular, in partnership with NGOs, have been networking to improve the reputation and legitimacy of global mining activities since the ‘90s."
Jan 26
20171
350.org / 1Sky, Carbon Markets | REDD, Conservation International, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Conservancy, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Sustainable Capitalism" 350.org Bob Costanza Capital Institute Conservation International Deutsche Bank Generation Investment Global Financial Crisis (GFC) Goldman Sachs. Gretchen Daily Gund Institute for Ecological Economics Gus Speth Hank Paulson Hunter Lovins John Fullerton JPMorgan Mark Tercek Natural Capital Natural Resources Defense Council New Economy New Economy Coalition Paulson Institute Pavan Sukhdev Payments for Ecosystem Services PES Regenerative Capitalism Taylor Ricketts The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) The Nature Conservancy University of Minnesota Wildlife Conservation Society WWF
"Let's put a spotlight on four bankers who positioned themselves in the 'natural capital' sector around the time of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Let's have a look at some of their networks."
Oct 27
20160
Bob Costanza Capitalism Global Goals Greenwash Gretchen Daily Herman Daly Natural Capital Nature Conservancy Neoliberalisation New Economy PES. Payments for Ecosystem Services Peter Kareiva “internalising externalities”
"What about ecological economist Herman Daly who advocates Natural Capital and tradable permits markets, another financial instrument of exploitation? One answer is that all the aforementioned are from the USA and all apparently support the existing corporate model of market capitalism, including prices as efficient means of resource allocation."
Apr 25
20165
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ford Foundation, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, NoVo Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Clean Energy" "Sustainable Capitalism" 350.org Bolivia Consumerism as Activism COP15 Divestment G77 KXL Naomi Klein New Economy private equity privatization R2P Warren Buffett YouTopia
"Having hijacked the environmental movement on behalf of Wall Street, these false fronts are currently pressing for changes in international law that would give the finance sector carte blanche in privatizing all of nature."
Feb 01
20160
Carbon Markets | REDD, Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Achuar Conservation cultural imperialism Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Eco-Colonial Tourism Ecotourism Fundación Pachamama Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Nature Conservancy Pachamama Alliance Rainforest Alliance REDD The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) USAID
"Cultural imperialism can take various forms, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony. Ecotourism easily fills the role of an opaque vellum that attempts to cover cultural imperialism."
Jan 20
20160
Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering
Anthropocentricity Nature Conservancy Neoliberalisation New Economy Peter Kareiva Robert Costanza The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) The Next System
"Most recently international support has been given for an experimental accountancy approach which shifts uneasily from physical measurement into monetary valuation, where apparently all the world's assets (whether human, natural or social) are to be conceptualised as capital to be made commensurable and traded-off one for the other as necessary... In the world of the mainstream economists and accountants, everything has a price and nothing is sacrosanct or inviolable."
Dec 01
20151
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, TckTckTck
350.org Avaaz COP21 Earth to Paris GCCA/TckTckTck Global Climate March Havas Worldwide United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) World Bank
Havas Worldwide, formerly known as Euro RSCG, is one of the largest integrated marketing communications agencies in the world. Clients include Air France, the 2009 Havas creation TckTckTck, and hundreds of the worlds most powerful corporations. More recently, Havas Worldwide is recognized as a convening partner of the COP21 Earth to Paris campaign with international NGOs 350.org, Avaaz, Ceres, the World Bank (via Connect4Climate), media, etc.
Oct 02
20150
Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Biomass Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGAd) Greenpeace Shell
"As long as organizations rely on false claim fund-raising – putting institutional and personal success above the successful survival of Gaian species – we will get nowhere positive in our efforts to save our own very life support system."
May 13
20151
Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Anthropogenic Breakthrough Institute Long Now Foundation Speciesism Techno-optimism The Nature Conservancy The Reason Foundation
"But the idea of commodifying Nature for economic and population growth is morally bankrupt. It seeks only to legitimize human manipulations and exploitation and ultimately is a threat to even human survival."