2015 Special Broadcasts / Latin American Conference on Financialization
The Latin American Conference on Financialization of Nature will take place from August 24-27 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, gathering tens of representatives of social movements and organizations from several countries of the region and European guests. The Conference will start with visits to regions of Pará where privatization, commodification and financialization of nature advance, but also where the local communities are building their resistance and alternatives. Real World Radio will cover the Conference in the framework of a new edition of the work of the Social Movements Communications Convergence.
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21 September 2015 | News | Latin American Conference on Financialization | Financialization of nature
The hidden side of decarbonization: financialization of nature projects increase land grabbing
Thomas Fatheuer is a sociologist and former head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Brazil. In his latest book, the New Economy of Nature (Nova Economia da Natureza) he exposes the recent process of “monetization” of nature, that supposedly aims to present solutions to the climate crisis. Thomas analyzed some aspects of the new economy of nature in his presentation during the opening ceremony of the Latin American Conference on Financialization of Nature. Read more
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8 September 2015 | Photo Galleries | Latin American Conference on Financialization
Images from Belem do Para
The Latin American Conference on Financialization of Nature that took place in Belem do Para, Brazil, contributed with the political building of tens of social movements and organizations of the region who have been working around this issue for several years. See gallery
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3 September 2015 | Interviews | Latin American Conference on Financialization | Financialization of nature | Free Honduras
Interview with OFRANEH leader: visit of the IACHR to Honduras and the urgency of justice
From August 22-25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) visited the Garifuna communities of Triunfo de la Cruz, in Tela, Atlantida department, and Punta Piedra, Colon department, due to the demands by the Black Honduran Organization (OFRANEH) submitted before the Inter-American Human Rights System about the territorial displacements against these communities. Read more
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13 August 2015 | Special reports | Latin American Conference on Financialization
Brazil: The impact of financialization of nature on indigenous communities and territories
We Are the Energy Revolution
Ninawa Huni Kuin - Huni Kuin community, Acre, Brazil - "They call it a Plan of Life, but we know it is a REDD project; they have changed the name to deceive communities." Read more
