Aug 30
20170
Blue Planet Prize Bob Costanza Ecological Economics Ecosystem Services Gretchen Daily Hank Paulson International Society for Ecological Economics Mark Tercek National Science Foundation (NSF) Natural Capital Natural Capital Project neoliberalism Paulson Institute The Nature Conservancy WWF
35 years later we can share with you the 8 MVPs who have made the biggest contribution to the final capture of nature to under-write the "new economy", an achievement of unprecedented scope under neoliberalism.
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."
Nov 14
20161
Friends of the Earth, United Nations
"Clean Energy" #keepitintheground AFL-CIO Al Gore Behavourial Change Biomass Bob Costanza carbon bubbles carbon budgets carbon capture and storage Catherine McKenna CERES-WE MEAN BUSINESS Christiana Figueres Climate Project COP22 David Roberts Friends of the Earth George Monbiot Grantham Institute James Hansen Jeremy Corbyn Language Nicholas Stern nuclear energy Podesta psywar stranded assets unburnable carbon UNFCCC US Department of Energy
"How do fundamentally economic concepts like unburnable carbon, stranded assets, and carbon budgets work for the inevitable continuation of fossil fuel extraction and the wholesale destruction of forests? How much political will for carbon capture and storage is out there and how is it expressed? How are pundits, mouthpieces or messaging agents able to use “clean energy” to mask their support for energy that is in no way clean?"
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."