{"id":269811,"date":"2024-07-22T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=269811"},"modified":"2024-07-19T04:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T03:19:23","slug":"new-report-biodiversity-is-life-not-an-asset-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/07\/new-report-biodiversity-is-life-not-an-asset-class\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report: Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>17 Jul 2024<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The financialization of nature continues the harmful legacy of bio-imperialism. These mechanisms, which include schemes like biodiversity credits and Nature Asset Companies (NACs), represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism. They aim to commodify entire ecosystems and all ecological functions of nature, particularly in biodiversity-rich territories that are often the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples or small farmer communities. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vandana Shiva - New Report by Navdanya International: Biodiversity is Life, Not an Asset Class\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dujgHSPfgd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND <em>Member<\/em><\/a><em> Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers\u2019 rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/navdanya.org\/\" >Navdanya Trust<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Jul 2024 &#8211; The financialization of nature by mechanisms and schemes like Biodiversity Credits and Nature Asset Companies represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1121,3347,532,2814,2277,401,391,3348,1200,551,1455],"class_list":["post-269811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity-credits","tag-colonialism","tag-commodification-of-the-earth","tag-commodification-of-water","tag-environment","tag-nature","tag-nature-asset-companies-nac","tag-natures-rights","tag-neocolonialism","tag-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269814,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269811\/revisions\/269814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}