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Biodiversity
Show Me The Money
istockphoto.com The chasm between aspiration and reality comes down to the stalemate on money at CoP 16. A 2020 publication, Financing Nature: Closing the Global Biodiversity Financing Gap, estimated at least US$700 Billion of investments was required in the lead up to 2030 to come close to implementing projects at the scale needed to reverse biodiversity loss. So far, the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) has received only US$163 million from 12 contributors to implement…
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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…
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Biodiversity
Indigenous Groups Are Sceptical Of CBD CoP16. Good, They Should Be.
istockphoto.com Highlighting what to monitor during CoP 16, one article asks, “Will Indigenous groups play a role in decisions?” going…
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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,…
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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…
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New Thinking
Broken Men With Power
Motortion | istockphoto.com Many years ago I first heard the phrase, “there is nothing more dangerous than a broken man…
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Regulation
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…
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New Thinking
Can Australia Aspire To Be Average, OECD Tax-to-GDP Ratio Average?
Since moving to Australia from Europe, in the mid-1990s, I have always been baffled by the country’s mindset of financial…
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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…
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Consumption
Quietly Quitting Consuming
In reality, the only hope we have to mitigate the risks associated with environmental collapse is degrowth. This cannot be…
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Biodiversity
Distraction Breeds Inaction – We Get What We Value
gorodenkoff | istockphoto.com The decision by two of the world’s biggest asset managers to quit an investor group set up…
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New Thinking
The Irrelevance Of Davos
Did Davos Meeting Peak In 1973? coolimagesco | istockphoto.com In 1971, a non-government organisation, called the European Management Forum brought…
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Biodiversity
Hubris And Conforming: The Dangerous Duo Killing The Natural World
Crimes can’t be solved when key suspects are taken out of the frame. This is driven home when true crime…
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