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.
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."
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 30
20170
Social Engineering, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Credit Suisse Framing Holistic Linguistics International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Natural Capital neoliberalism United Nations World Conservation Congress World Wide Fund for Nature World Wildlife Fund
"The use of “natural capital” as a noun is becoming increasingly normalised in environmental governance. Recent natural capital initiatives include the World Forum on Natural Capital, described as “the world’s leading natural capital event”, ..."
"Language is vital. The words we use to describe things and processes constrain our thinking about the world – this is the main message of research on values and frames."
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 29
20160
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Anthropocentrism Degrowth Denialism environmentalism Growth Natural Capital neoliberalism New Economy Next System Payments for Ecosystems Services PES Physical Limits The Solutions Project
"You can't go back, only forward. Not everybody can have it. That's the point of bio-physicality relationship. That's the lie. You will not have all the people in the world living at the American lifestyle, even the poorest American, at that threshold level. It will not happen. You can not exploit those resources, you can not get them cheap enough, you can not get those fossils (fuel) out of the ground without fucking up everything, the planet and so forth..."
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."
Oct 26
20160
Social Engineering, United Nations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Agenda for Sustainable Development Capitalism CCS Denialism Economic Growth Natural Capital Paris Agreement PES
"In the end the Paris Agreement changes nothing. The destination is the same old growth economy and that is in total contradiction with addressing human induced climate change."
May 06
20162
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ceres, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, NoVo Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
#WeHaveAPlan 350 Annie Leonard Avaaz Ceres Earth Economics Indigenous Rights Natural Capital NoVo Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) privatization Purpose Tides UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) WBCSD
“The implementation of payment for ecosystem services,” Morningstar observes, “will create the most spectacular opportunities that the financial sector has ever witnessed.”