Oct 13
20211
30x30 CBD Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 Displacement Ecosystem Services financialization of nature Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG) Natural Asset Company (NAC) Natural Capital Nature-As-A-Service New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Rockefeller Foundation
"In the world currently being constructed by these and related entities, where even freedom is being re-framed not as a right but “a service,” the natural processes on which life depends are similarly being re-framed as assets, which will have owners."
Feb 09
20200
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering
2020 Super Year Al Gore Commodification Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) DAVOS Ecosystem Services Emerging Markets IPBES Jennifer Morgan Natural Capital Project New Deal for Nature New Deal For Nature and People Objectification Payments for Ecosystem Services Privatization of Nature Speciesism United Nations Voice for the Planet Wall Street We Mean Business World Economic Forum World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
“The New Deal For Nature” (NDFN) is being drawn up by the world’s most powerful corporations, financial institutions, and conservation NGOs, including WWF. WWF has been complicit in human rights abuses for years. At the helm of the NDFN is the World Economic Forum which entered into partnership with the United Nations on June 13, 2019.
Jan 30
20200
Celebrity [Capitalism | Humanitarianism | Neoliberalism], Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering
"agnotology" Ecological Economics Ecosystem Services Fridays for Future neoliberalism Robert Costanza “sustainable development”
"It is difficult for those who are driven by the idea of "changing the world" to believe that the "spontaneity" of such protests is, in reality, the staging of a script written by others, a product ready to be put on the market of ideas."
Oct 20
20190
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Research & Investigative Reports on NGOs, Social Engineering
Ecosystem Services financialization of nature Greta Thunberg Podcast The Sunrise Movement
Morningstar’s work may prove instructive as those of us who are concerned about our survival on this planet try to focus on what activity can genuinely make a positive difference for the climate, the atmosphere and the health of our ecosystems. Listen here:
Jul 18
20190
ArborGen Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bioeconomy Biotechnology Business for Nature CRISPR Crowther Labs Ecosystem Services ETH Zürich FuturaGene Genetically Engineered Trees International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) IPBES Landless Workers Movement Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) REDD The Global Tree Restoration Potential UN FAO
"This lack of concern about the larger implications and risks of GE trees by researchers has led to decades of global opposition, a fact which was discussed during a lengthy panel session on “Societal Acceptance of Forest Biotechnology.” The session was focused on ways to encourage the public to accept GE trees."
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.
Feb 28
20170
Ecosystem Services financialisation of nature Natural Capital sixth extinction TEEB The Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
"The reframing of the sixth extinction crisis within the neoliberal idiom of ‘natural capital’ and ‘ecosystem services’ reflects a history of the reprocessing of political and scientific ecological discourse in order to better accommodate it to reigning economic doctrines."
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."
Sep 24
20150
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Carbon Markets | REDD, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Oxfam, Pacifism as Pathology, TckTckTck
Ecosystem Services Kleinisms (conflationary thinking) Millennium Development Goals Naomi Klein On the Road to Paris This Changes Everything United Nations Global Biodiversity Outlook
"Capitalist friendly climate discourse has only become increasingly vogue because that's what global media, on behalf of their owners, wish to sell us. And they have succeeded. The storyline has been swallowed, hook, line and sinker. Klein's contributions have not threatened capitalism; rather her efforts are utilized to not only protect it, but strengthen it."
Sep 24
20152
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Carbon Markets | REDD, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Foundation
Business for the Environment (B4E) Capital Institute Ceres Ecosystem Services Media Natural Capital New Economy Payments for Ecosystems Services The Biosphere Economy The Guardian The Next System Project United Nations Environment Programme
"Gone is the green economy. Welcome to the Next System, the Regenerative System, the New Economy, the Biosphere Economy, etc. A fusion of rhapsodic and mellifluous language that creates a sublime chrysalis to further expand capital markets. The second verse is the same as the first."