Article from IATP explains the connection between the Green Economy and PES trading related to water.
Available at: http://www.iatp.org/files/2012_03_09_GreenEconomyWater_SV.pdf
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.
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5 February 2014
Leaflet produced by Les Amis de la Terre France that shows why making nature, ecosystems and water tradable will not solve our current global crisis. It also criticises the finance sector’s ‘Natural Capital Declaration’ which outlines new market mechanisms which the finance sector aims to use as part of the so-called ‘green economy’.
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5 February 2014
A short animated film about the takeover of nature by financial markets and the real alternatives coming up from civil society. An initiative of SOMO, European ATTAC Network, Food & Water Europe, Friends of the Earth, Carbon Trade Watch, WEED, Ecologistas en Acción, AITEC and Campagna per la riforma della Banca Mondiale.
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5 February 2014
Only available in Spanish.
Por Diego Cardona, CENSAT Agua Viva Friends of the Earth Colombia,
Available at: http://www.wrm.org.uy/html/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Esp_Biodiversidad_12_2013.pdf
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20 January 2014
Only available in Spanish.
Bulletin articles
23 December 2013
In the business world, “sustainability” promises, among other things, that economic activity does not violate the rights of the communities affected, and that future generations will be able to continue to benefit from the natural setting where the activity is practiced. NGOs, companies and governments who promote “sustainable forest management” (SFM) claim that this is possible to achieve in tropical forests, using certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as a guarantee.
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13 December 2013
By FERN.
Although no progress was made toward a new global climate treaty at the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in November in Warsaw, decisions were made concerning reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+).
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4 December 2013
International Peoples Treaty: "Defending peoples' rights against corporate power".
For immediate release - 3 December 2013.
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3 December 2013
The No REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) initiated the “Week of Action Against False Solutions”, from October 28 to November 4. The action, joined by the global convergence Reclaim Power! http://reclaimpower.net/, opposes the “dirty energy” and the companies who try to greenwash themselves with false solutions like REDD and other false solutions such as carbon trading, CDM, 'green economy', biodiversity offsets, CCS, geo-engineering and of course the big false solution- 'clean coal'.
Bulletin articles
3 December 2013
Publications
27 November 2013
Study conducted by the Centro de Memória das Lutas e Movimentos Sociais da Amazônia.
Publications
22 November 2013
By Joanna Cabello, World Rainforest Movement