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Regulation
From Productive Capital to Predatory Capital
What Happens When Capital Has Nowhere Left to Go? Justitia sculpture on the Roemerberg square in Frankfurt/Germany. istockphoto.com The overlap between legal and criminal activities arises from a lack of appropriate regulation and enforcement. These conditions have led to the legal and illegal trade in wild species being functionally inseparable. Right now, no matter what companies, governments, NGOs and academics try to promote, the reality is for all but literally a handful of species, that…
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Regulation
The Role of Performative Public Consultation in Political Greenwashing
Bulga Coal mine Panorama, near Broke NSW Australia As I write this article the time window for public comment on the draft National Environmental Standard for Matters of National Environmental…
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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;…
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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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