Una «economía verde» que agrava la crisis ecológica

The document critiques the 'green economy' as a mechanism for financial institutions and multinationals to commodify nature. It argues that market-based solutions, such as carbon markets and biodiversity offsets, lead to 'green grabbing,' the marginalization of indigenous communities, and the evasion of corporate environmental responsibility. The report advocates for the recognition of ecological debt, the protection of common goods through community management, and a radical shift toward sustainable societies based on social and ecological justice rather than market logic.

• The 'green economy' is characterized as a strategy to transform the ecological crisis into a growth opportunity for corporations by using market mechanisms to manage nature and human well-being, which enables the 'acaparamiento de la naturaleza por parte de las multinacionales y los fondos de inversión'.
• Integrating nature into markets creates unacceptable risks, including the reduction of corporate responsibility by allowing companies to pay compensation instead of following regulations, and the fragmentation of ecosystems where functions with higher market value, such as carbon storage, are prioritized over others.
• Carbon markets are described as a failure that has led to the over-allocation of quotas, price collapses, and massive fraud, benefiting bankers and polluters without reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• The financialization of nature leads to the exclusion of local and indigenous communities from decision-making and the creation of new property rights that marginalize the poor, as seen in the case of General Motors and other companies purchasing forests in Brazil's Guaraqueçaba bay to obtain carbon credits.
• Water markets, implemented in countries like Chile and Australia, have resulted in the concentration of water rights among large companies and reduced access for small farmers and indigenous communities.
• The report proposes an alternative based on the 'ecological debt' of Northern countries to the South and the collective management of natural goods by communities, citing the Kayapo people in Brazil as an example of successful forest protection through the recognition of land rights rather than economic compensation.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (n.d.). Una «economía verde» que agrava la crisis ecológica. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/la_naturaleza_no_esta_en_venta2.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. Una «economía verde» que agrava la crisis ecológica. n.d. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/la_naturaleza_no_esta_en_venta2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternationalnduna, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{Una «economía verde» que agrava la crisis ecológica}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/la_naturaleza_no_esta_en_venta2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }