Valuing natural capital or devaluing nature?

Maxime Combes

Coins hammered into a tree in Wales: literally natural capital. Photo: Eifion. This image is licensed under Creative Commons License. “To press non-economic values into the framework of the economic Calculus… it is a procedure by which the higher is reduced to the●●●

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The State of Corporate Power – Insights into the Power of Corporations

Brid Brennan, Programme Co-ordinator Economic Justice, Corporate Power and Alternatives, Transnational Institute (TNI)

  Public Eye Awards Press Conference, Davos, Switzerland   TNI’s 2014 State of Power Report[1], reveals that in the past year, transnational corporations (TNCs), particularly gas and oil industry and banking have continued to benefit extraordinarily from the ongoing economic●●●

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Joint civil society statement: World Bank forced to admit failings on controversial human rights scandal

OXFAM International

The World Bank has been forced to backtrack on a controversial investment in Corporación Dinant, a palm oil company implicated in serious human rights abuses in Honduras. Following the January 10th release of one of the most damning investigations ever issued●●●

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