financialisation

Report on the strategy meeting in Brussels, 6-7 Dec. 2012Background:One key approach of the Green Economy proposal is the financialization of nature: the pricing of nature and the application of market mechanisms for profit. A larger audience and policy makers lack information on these ongoing processes and concepts. This is the background of a decision taken at the Vienna conference on “Socio-ecological transformation and energy policy in Latin America and Europe” to make the financialization of nature as one of the thematic focuses in the project ...
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