No to the financialization of nature
28 November 2016 | Videos | Criminalization of COPINH | Financialization of nature | Free Honduras | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
This Monday, Real World Radio (RWR) presented a short video summarizing the work carried out by the radio in 2015 and 2016 at the Biennial General Assembly of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI, the federation to which the radio belongs), which is taking place in South Lampung Regency, Indonesia. The video is also a tribute to the work of FoEI in these past two years. Watch video
7 October 2016 | Videos | Financialization of nature
The coordinator of the Environmental Justice program at the Brazilian office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Maureen Santos, highlighted the need for social movements and peasant communities to reaffirm agroecology and not allow it to be coopted by the official discourse that speaks of “climate smart agriculture”. Watch video
30 September 2016 | Interviews | Financialization of nature
Coecoceiba and the Costa Rican Federation for the Conservation of the Environment (FECON) demanded respect for the declaration of the Bribri people of Talamanca in rejection to the “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation national strategy”. They denounce that this strategy, promoted in the country and included in national policies and contributions to climate change mitigation is a false solution to the climate crisis. Read more
20 September 2016 | Interviews | Financialization of nature | Land grabbing
Forests and Biodiversity Program Co-coordinator at Friends of the Earth International, Nele Mariën, was interviewed by Real World Radio on the day before the celebration of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations. The activist analyzed the main consequences of large-scale tree plantations, the risks of their growth facilitated by the implications of the Paris Climate Agreement and the “negative emission” proposals, and even the potential impact of the aviation sector with its emission offsetting initiative through the REDD mechanism. Read more
5 July 2016 | News | Financialization of nature
Bribri indigenous communities of Talamanca region, Limon province, Costa Rica, gathered over 300 signatures throughout their territories to support the “Bribri territories free from REDD+ Declaration”, a document that was already submitted to authorities. Read more
8 December 2015 | Photo Galleries | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Financialization of nature
Real World Radio presents a photo gallery of the actions carried out by Friends of the Earth International groups and Young Friends of the Earth Europe inside Le Bourget, where the UN talks on climate change are taking place in Paris, France. See gallery
25 November 2015 | Testimonies | Financialization of nature
Ten years after the abandonment of the project of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a common articulation of social movements, students, workers, peasants, women and indigenous peoples, representing these sectors, met in Havana, Cuba, to discuss a new stage of anticapitalist struggle in the region. Read more
10 November 2015 | Interviews | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Financialization of nature
International organization GRAIN and the World Rainforest Movement issued a new study that analyzes the risks of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD) in its “plus” or REDD+ version on peasant communities, indigenous groups and forests. Read more
13 October 2015 | News | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Financialization of nature
The peoples of the world gathered in Tiquipaya, Bolivia from 10 to 12 October 2015, we worked on a agreed proposal to be presented to the international community and governments around the world to preserve the life and combat climate change; as an urgent response to a failed capitalist system and civilization model that are the structural causes of the climate crisis in the world. Read more
21 September 2015 | News | Latin American Conference on Financialization | Financialization of nature
Thomas Fatheuer is a sociologist and former head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Brazil. In his latest book, the New Economy of Nature (Nova Economia da Natureza) he exposes the recent process of “monetization” of nature, that supposedly aims to present solutions to the climate crisis. Thomas analyzed some aspects of the new economy of nature in his presentation during the opening ceremony of the Latin American Conference on Financialization of Nature. Read more
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