[Diggers350] Last copy of French 'Banking Nature' (English 2015) documentary removed from YouTube - now reuploaded, please save

[Tony Gosling]

Emacs!


Banking Nature | The Privatization Of Nature | 
New Environmental Markets | WBCSD English subs (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdfh-N7ifMM

https://tlio.org.uk/banking-nature-2015-documentary-on-new-wbcsd-markets-and-the-privatisation-of-nature/

Emacs!



Banking Nature is a documentary that looks at the 
growing movement to monetize the natural world 
and to turn endangered species, areas of 
outstanding natural beauty, and threatened areas into instruments of profit.

This documentary was removed from the monoconomy 
channel in late 2024, early 2025 for reasons 
unknown - at the time it was the only online copy 
of this most instructive film. For the sake of 
humanity, and sanity, please make sure that never 
happens again. You know what to do.

Privatization Of Nature - Who is behind the new 
environmental wave of interest in planting 
forests in Africa, making you buy rain-forest and 
climatic quotas for pollution? It surely wouldn't 
be the same which made the last financial crises in sub prime loans?

Synopsis A:
We investigate the commercialization of the 
natural world. Protecting our planet has become 
big business with companies promoting new 
environmental markets. This involves species 
banking, where investors buy up vast swathes of 
land, full of endangered species, to enable them 
to sell ‘nature credits’. Companies whose actions 
destroy the environment are now obliged to buy 
these credits and new financial centres have 
sprung up, specializing in this trade.

Many respected economists believe that the best 
way to protect nature is to put a price on it. 
But others fear that this market in nature could 
lead to companies having a financial interest in 
a species’ extinction. There are also concerns 
that – like the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 
– the market in nature credits is bound to crash. 
And there are wider issues at stake. What 
guarantees do we have that our natural 
inheritance will be protected? And should our ecological heritage be for sale?

Synopsis B
Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac delve into 
the world of green banking in this documentary, 
reporting that investors buy up the habitats of 
endangered species and then sell them in the form 
of shares. The film includes a montage of images 
of nature, reflective voice-overs and interviews 
with bankers, economists, activists and 
policymakers. The economist Pavan Sukhdev is 
interviewed, saying nature can best be protected 
by sticking a price tag on it. Pablo Solon is 
interviewed saying this subjecting of nature to 
free market forces as a "license to kill" it. 
Vandana Shiva is also interviewed.

(original title) Nature, Le Nouvel Eldorado De La Finance
ALSO KNOWN AS (AKA):
France: Nature, Le Nouvel Eldorado De La Finance
Germany: Natur - Spekulationsobjekt Mit Zukunft
Norway: Naturens kapital
United Kingdom: Banking Nature
United States: Banking Nature
World-wide: Banking Nature (English)
Original upload - www.moconomy.tv

Privatization Of Nature (2014)
Director: Sandrine Feydel, Denis Delestrac
Stars: Bertrand Dussy, Framboise Gommendy, Laurent Jacquet
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Language: English
Also Known As: Banking Nature
Release Date: February 3, 2015 (France) 
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