LISTEN: 5 Key Takeaways from COP26, Glasgow 2021
"What is this COP26 everyone's talking about? Is it really that great as it sounds in the news? Why not?"
Nov 14
20210
Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Prince" Charles CLG Europe Colonialism COP26 financialization of nature Natural Capital Investment Alliance Prince of Wales' Sustainable Markets Initiative Terra Carta The "Great Reset" Victoria Tauli Corpuz We Mean Business
"What is this COP26 everyone's talking about? Is it really that great as it sounds in the news? Why not?"
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 24
20200
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
2020 Super Year Countdown financialization of nature IPBES New Deal for Nature Super Year UN Voice for the Planet World Economic Forum WWF
"This is what the thirty percent of the globe taken for the New Deal for Nature will look like – a third of the globe stolen for profit. It’s a new colonialism, the world’s biggest land grab, supposedly “green” and supposedly to save the world – a really big lie."
Dec 02
20191
Avaaz, MoveOn.org, Sierra Club, Social Engineering
Avaaz Blended Finance Taskforce Brand New Congress Business and Sustainable Development Commission Climate Nexus Data for Progress financialization of nature Global Green New Deal Green New Deal Justice Democrats MoveOn Natural Capital Coalition Podcast Sierra Club The New Climate Economy Project The Sunrise Movement World Resources Institute
"This is a red flag. As Morningstar explained previously, seeking net-zero emissions does not mean radically reducing the amount of carbon the U.S. pumps into the atmosphere. It means using technology and other instruments to offset or capture the same amount of carbon our society is creating."
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:
Mar 01
20170
Commodification of the Commons Extinction Economics financialization of nature IISD SDG Knowledge Hub International Institute for Sustainable Development Natural Capital Natural Capital Forum Neliberalism Sustainable Development Goals World Conservation Congress
"The conclusion is clear: natural capital is no practical or realistic solution to integrate nature into the economy or make its values visible. It is a dangerous illusion that will not only worsen but also legitimate the environmental crisis."
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 09
20170
Barrack Obama financialization of nature Global Goals Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) Prince of Wales The New Economy World Wildlife Fund (WWF) WWF
Could this move also signal what could be an acceleration of the implementation of payments for ecosystems services (also referred to as the "new economy", "natural capital", the financialization of nature, The Next System, etc.) by the world's most powerful institutions and states?
Mar 13
20160
Carbon Markets | REDD, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Carbon Markets financialization of nature Monetization of Nature Natural Capital Objectification of Nature Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) privatization REDD
"But make-believe markets are highly likely to fail when people are otherwise relentlessly focused on nickel-and-dime realities. The market mentality also degrades nature by attempting to turn it into a commodity. "
Feb 10
20160
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carbon Markets | REDD, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Social Engineering
Bill Gates Bill McKibben Divestment financialization of nature New Economy Ricken Patel
"Illiteracy obscures the fact that over-the-rainbow puffery (like the exaggerations exhorted by the financial elite at COP21) is doomed to come crashing to earth–like all pyramid schemes do; immaturity allows the gullible to be hoodwinked into believing that somehow this time it will turn out differently."