The financial sector’s hostile take over of nature

The statement by Friends of the Earth International warns that treating nature and forests as financial assets leads to environmental destruction and social injustice. It specifically critiques the promotion of industrial tree plantations as carbon sinks, arguing that they lack the biodiversity of native forests and cause community displacement and human rights violations.

• The financial sector is 'financialising' nature by creating new financial assets and ownership rights, which reduces the value of nature to its financial utility and makes environmental scarcity lucrative.
• Industrial-scale tree plantations are being falsely presented as 'carbon sinks' to generate tradeable carbon credits, allowing corporations and industrialised countries to continue emitting carbon dioxide.
• Unlike native forests, industrial plantations lack biological and social diversity and result in negative impacts including community displacement, human rights violations, pesticide pollution, and the disruption of hydrological cycles.
• The influence of financial markets and elites over economic policy leads to increased environmental and social exploitation and undermines the rights of Indigenous People.

APA

admin (2013). The financial sector’s hostile take over of nature. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/the-financial-sectors-hostile-take-over-of-nature/

Chicago

admin. The financial sector’s hostile take over of nature. Friends of the Earth International, 2013. https://www.foei.org/the-financial-sectors-hostile-take-over-of-nature/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=admin |title=The financial sector’s hostile take over of nature |publisher=Friends of the Earth International |date=20 September 2013 |url=https://www.foei.org/the-financial-sectors-hostile-take-over-of-nature/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{admin2013financial, author = {admin}, title = {{The financial sector’s hostile take over of nature}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2013}, month = sep, url = {https://www.foei.org/the-financial-sectors-hostile-take-over-of-nature/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }