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<h1><font size=5><b>Banking Nature, French documentary on new WBCSD
markets, the privatisation of
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27 July 2024</a> <a href="https://tlio.org.uk/author/tony/">Tony
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<h1><font size=4><b>Banking Nature (2015), new WBCSD environmental
markets | see also
<a href="https://tlio.org.uk/planet-of-the-humans-how-environmental-and-green-energy-movements-have-been-taken-over-by-capitalists/">
Planet of the Humans
(2020)</a></b></font></h1><font size=6>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSPfI86IlQA" eudora="autourl">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSPfI86IlQA<br><br>
</a></font>Privatization Of Nature – Who is behind the new environmental
wave of interest in planting forests in Afrika, 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?<br><br>
“Buying landscapes, protecting landscapes, accumulating new
landscapes-it’s a phenomenal opportunity.” -Steve Morgan, CEO, Wildlands
Inc.<br><br>
<img src="cid:.0" width=805 height=453 alt="Emacs!"><br><br>
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BANKING NATURE is a film about the growing movement to monetize the
natural world: to turn endangered species and threatened areas into
instruments of profit.<br><br>
It’s a worldview that posits capital and markets as the planet’s
salvation-turning nature into “natural capital.” In this view, the best
way to protect endangered species and habitats is to assign them dollar
values and measure the “ecosystem services” they provide. These services
can then be converted into securitized financial products.<br><br>
The results can be grotesque. In Uganda, we meet men who measure trees to
determine how much carbon they store-and a banker from the German firm
that sells the resulting carbon credits. Meanwhile, in Brazil, steel
giant Vale destroys rainforest, replaces it with tree plantations, and
reaps the benefits of environmental credits.<br><br>
Can we trust the same people whose mismanagement of the mortgage market
led to a global economic meltdown to safeguard nature, by turning it into
financial instruments for speculators?<br><br>
“Successfully outlines the theory behind ‘financializing nature’… making
this complex aspect of the modern market system comprehensible… Does a
real service. Recommended.”Video Librarian<br><br>
“This is a fascinating work, investigating an inventive plan to protect
nature… The portrayal of both sides of this impalpable concept is
laudable. Huge assembly of opponents gives this film a distinct
objectivity. The work has brilliant foresight into the issues, turning
points, dangers, and ethical dilemmas of the proposal. Highly
recommended.”Educational Media Reviews Online<br><br>
“A beautiful and very challenging and provocative treatment of the
current effort to save nature and the planet by applying market
economics, models, and tools to global environmental crises such as
species extinction, the loss of biodiversity, degradation and loss of
whole ecosystems like the world’s rainforests, and global
warming.”Science Books and Films<br><br>
Privatization Of Nature (2015)<br>
Director: Sandrine Feydel, Denis Delestrac<br>
Stars: Bertrand Dussy, Framboise Gommendy, Laurent Jacquet<br>
Genre: Documentary<br>
Country: France<br>
Language: English (with subtitled German, French and Spanish)<br>
Also Known As: Banking Nature<br>
Release Date: February 3, 2015 (France)<br><br>
Synopsis:<br>
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.<br><br>
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?<br><br>
Also Known As (AKA):<br>
(original title) Nature, Le Nouvel Eldorado de la Finance<br>
France Nature, le Nouvel Eldorado de la Finance<br>
Germany Natur – Spekulationsobjekt Mit Zukunft<br>
Norway Naturens Kapital<br>
United Kingdom Banking Nature<br>
United States Banking Nature<br>
World-wide Banking Nature (English)<br><br>
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