No to the financialization of nature
3 September 2015 | Interviews | Latin American Conference on Financialization | Financialization of nature | Free Honduras
From August 22-25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) visited the Garifuna communities of Triunfo de la Cruz, in Tela, Atlantida department, and Punta Piedra, Colon department, due to the demands by the Black Honduran Organization (OFRANEH) submitted before the Inter-American Human Rights System about the territorial displacements against these communities. Read more
12 August 2015 | Interviews | Financialization of nature | Free Honduras
These days, the city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras becomes the global mining capital, hosting the event “Honduras Open for Business”, which gathers more than 400 mining companies around the world. This has been denounced by local communities and Mesoamerican articulations that reject this industry as an auction of the country and subjugation of its sovereignty. Read more
25 June 2015 | Interviews | Financialization of nature
The mechanisms of financialization of nature are promoted by transnational corporations, financial institutions and multilateral organizations as a way to defend nature and as a solution to the global climate crisis. Several of the mechanisms that operate under this logic are already being imposed in several countries. One of them is the so called “non-recoverable fund”, i.e. projects that do not aim at generating profit. The analyses and voices against them didn´t take long to appear and there are more and more arguments against them. Read more
18 June 2015 | Interviews | Financialization of nature
“The main issue when we talk about the right to consultation is that the people in charge of REDD projects don´t say anything to us. They don´t say how it will be managed or what will happen to our forests, and this is why we have so much uncertainty”, said the Terraba indigenous leader Pablo Sivas, of Costa Rica. Read more
11 June 2015 | Testimonies | Financialization of nature | Public Forum Energy System Uruguay | Basta de Impunidad Corporativa - Ginebra 2015
In the framework of the Public Forum” Just and Sovereign Energy System” that took place on June 4 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the participants focused on the influence of multilateral and bilateral free trade agreements or protection investment treaties on public services, especially in the energy field. Read more
9 June 2015 | News | Financialization of nature
Isaac Rojas (Costa Rica), Forests and Biodiversity program coordinator Friends of the Earth International San Jose, Costa Rica – Friends of the Earth International has celebrated World Environment Day on 5 June every year since 1973. This year we celebrate it by recalling the importance of community management of biodiversity. Read more
21 May 2015 | Interviews | Financialization of nature
Onion and bell pepper production in Uruguay takes place mainly in Canelones department, to the South of the country, where thanks to the keeping and conservation of native seeds, different genetic improvement lines have been developed, through which urban populations are supplied. Read more
11 May 2015 | Interviews | 6th Native Seed and Family Farming Festival – Uruguay | Financialization of nature
Far from being at a standstill, the instruments for the private appropriation of nature, which have been increasingly denounced by environmental and peasant movements for decades, are advancing and are developed more and more. The implications and threats they represent against biodiversity are extremely negative, and of course, native seeds do not escape them. For this reason, the 6th Native Seed and Family Farming Festival held in Uruguay organized a Table on the Financialization of Nature, aiming to have discussions and warn about these threats. Read more
3 May 2015 | News | Financialization of nature
On April 28, the European Parliament voted a new law that caps the use of crops to produce fuel. European MPs have recognized that agrofuels may compete with food production, contribute to climate change and force land-use changes. Read more
28 April 2015 | Interviews | Financialization of nature
As a mega-diverse country in environmental terms, Brazil has huge areas covered by forests, which has turned it into a financial capital target. Biodiversity abundance and richness is causing capital to advance over different territories of the country, through processes of financialization of nature that aim to "give way to new titles within the financial market based on intangible assets", said Lucia Ortiz, Friends of the Earth International´s Economic Justice - Resisting Neoliberalism program coordinator. Read more
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