One Forest Summit: green colonialism and the financialisation of nature, repackaged as innovative conservation financing?

The summit aims among other things at “unlocking innovative sources of financing including market-based biodiversity conservation solutions, with a special focus on so-called biodiversity-positive carbon credits and nature certificates. We find that there is nothing innovative about financial instruments on biodiversity that have been amply debated over the past decade and merely tweaked of late. …

Open letter: 119 experts call to protect nature from the “nature positive economy”

119 experts from academia and civil society have signed an open letter highlighting their concerns about and rejection of the so-called “nature positive economy”, currently being promoted by the World Economic Forum, the WWF, some big lobbies and the European Commission amongst others, ahead of the COP15. While its name sounds innocuous and cheerful enough, …