This new publication looks at the concept of ‘Payment for Environmental Services’ in its current cloths; examines some of the claims made by those who argue that putting a price on Nature is the only way to save Nature.
The Green Economy
The Green Economy is a tactic used to “clean up” the image of corporations rather than address corporate capture and capitalism as the true drivers of deforestation. False solutions promoted under the Green Economy include certification, sustainable forest management, ecosystem services, REDD+, the bioeconomy, nature-based climate solutions, and zero net deforestation. Rather than stopping it, these “solutions” support corporate-driven destruction that is causing a deep social and ecological crisis.
Publications
29 April 2014
Bulletin articles
5 April 2014
Today, many big companies have programmes aimed at emphasizing the equality of opportunities offered to women. These are companies that are concerned about showing the importance they give to incorporating women in their business strategies. This concern seems to represent a politically correct stance in a time when, fortunately, there are a growing number of policies in many countries aimed specifically at women, as a way of reducing the inequality they have historically faced. These problems of inequality are far from resolved, however.
Bulletin articles
5 April 2014
Today, we watch as the capitalist system undergoes a major restructuring in order to keep the current order of oppression and exploitation in place.
Other information
12 March 2014
12 March, 2014
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25 February 2014
Dear friends, your support in needed!
The Sengwer people – an indigenous hunter-gatherer community in the Cherangany hills in Kenya- is being forcibly evicted from its territory.
Many of us have been following closely the story, as recent as last January, but is something that has been taking place since the year 2007. These evictions are directly linked to the World Bank’s funding of the Kenyan government’s REDD+ ‘readiness’ , through the bank’s Natural Resource Management Project (NRMP).
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25 February 2014
February 25, 2014
Download here the full letter in pdf format with the final list of sign-ons
Action alerts
25 February 2014
Dear friends, your support in needed!
The Sengwer people – an indigenous hunter-gatherer community in the Cherangany hills in Kenya- is being forcibly evicted from its territory.
Many of us have been following closely the story, as recent as last January, but is something that has been taking place since the year 2007. These evictions are directly linked to the World Bank’s funding of the Kenyan government’s REDD+ ‘readiness’ , through the bank’s Natural Resource Management Project (NRMP).
Bulletin articles
5 February 2014
Bulletin articles
5 February 2014
Content of this article:
Introduction
- Box: What is being traded in ‘Ecosystem Service’ Markets?
From PES to ‘offset’ payments for ‘environmental services’
- Different types of PES
- From simple trade to complex financial market transaction
- Spot the differences
Other information
5 February 2014
REDD Monitor website with articles and blog in English.
Most widely read website with information and analysis critical of REDD and trading in ‘ecosystem services’
www.redd-monitor.org
Other information
5 February 2014
Academic article by R. Muradian and others.
http://r1.ufrrj.br/cpda/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Conservation-Letters.pdf
Other information
5 February 2014
FERN Briefing that describes “how biodiversity offset schemes have fared so far and shows that the picture is far from rosy”. With examples showing how biodiversity offsets are used in the UK and France to undermine local opposition against unnecessary large infrastructure projects.