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I. The “Green Economy”: A New Phase of Capitalist Expansion and Structural Adjustment Today we are facing great risks — even a civilization crisis – manifest in many dimensions and exacerbated by unprecedented inequalities. Systems and institutions that sustain life and societies – such as food and energy production, climate, water and biodiversity, even...
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  The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP’s report “Towards a Green Economy” is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system. A text from Edgardo Lander,  TNI November 2011 report green-economy edgardo lander
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ETC Group, Who Will Control the Green Economy?, nov 2011 Edgardo Lander, The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing, nov 2011 On green capitalism, by Esther Vivas IBON Policy Brief_Green Economy- Pain or Gain for the Earth’s Poor_2011 IBON document – EDM_Nov-Dec_2011 Green Economy _ Which is the value of nature, by Frei...
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The People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice during Rio+20  is an event organized by global civil society that will take place between the 15th and the 23rd of June at Flamengo, in Rio de Janeiro – alongside the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio+20. You can find info: http://cupuladospovos.org.br/
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A bottom-up international campaign against the commodification and financialization of Nature   The draft zero for Rio + 20 Conference of the United Nations -entitled The Future We Want- was published in January 2012. Its main purpose is to promote a “Green Economy”. In draft zero, this concept of the Green Economy is left...
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