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Biodiversity
The Legal Trade In Wild Species: Deadly By Design
Carolyn Smith | istockphoto.com The contradictions in Colombia hosting the CDB COP16 are stark. This isn’t only about the thousands of army and police officers providing security for the event; with both groups having a history of suppressing environmental activists. It is important to state that Colombia is the deadliest place when it comes to the murder of environmental activists. Global Witness has been compiling and reporting the deadly statistics on the murders of environmental…
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Regulation
MMT, Unproductive Money And Unnecessary Consumption
Wara1982 | istockphoto.com As the crises of global warming and biodiversity edge ever closer to collapse, I find myself thinking, why don’t the people traveling to event after event just…
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Biodiversity
The Problem Of Semantics When Creating Protected Areas
Alistair Burls | istockphoto.com Undoubtedly the Federal Labor government needed a headline grabber at the start of the Nature Positive Summit, after what has been a dismal first term for…
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Is Moral Capitalism An Oxymoron?
The advisor demonstrates the shareholders rights book. A quote by Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and environmental lawyer, is often reiterated by those monitoring biodiversity collapse;…
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Collapse
Nature Positive And The Dangers Of Investing In Opaque Systems
petmal | istockphoto.com To anyone trying to understand the accelerating juggernaut of ‘Nature Positive’, and if it can genuinely help tackle biodiversity loss, a good first step to is to…
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Regulation
Another Voluntary Scheme? Sign Me Up!
Kirill Ikonnikov | istockphoto.com The use of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) and certification schemes has been a staple of the phantom solutions that business will readily commit to, as they are…
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Regulation
Sovereign Wealth Fund Or Big Fat Tax?
The answer would depend on if you are Norway or Australia. mikulas1 | istockphoto The Australian federal government recently published the latest instalment of the country’s Intergenerational Report (IGR). First…
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Regulation
Dodgy Offsets Will Not Prevent Collapse
Kerry Trapnell | The Wilderness Society We are supposedly at the stage now where governments are taking climate change seriously and are taking action to reduce emissions. The UN commissioned…
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The Trade Report That Isn’t A Trade Report
Laurence Dutton | istockphoto The first thing to say about the CITES World Wildlife Trade Report is that it isn’t a trade report, it is an overview of the current…
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