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A 'Green Economy' is defined as an economy that reduces impact on the environment. Many advocates promote pricing mechanisms for valuing nature as a key way to factor in environmental costs into the economy that are otherwise externalised and ignored. While this may sound a good idea in theory, in practice this ends up extending corporate control into new areas from forestry to biodiversity and even the air (carbon trading), often denying access and undermining the control of marginalised communities.

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  • 'Green' Multinationals Exposed How the energy transition is being hijacked by corporate interests

    • Energy Democracy
    • Just Transition
    • Climate Crisis
    • Green Economy

    For over a century, energy multinationals have been wrecking the planet and exploiting people in pursuit of profit. Now, power producers and technology manufacturers are marketing themselves as ‘green’ to boost their reputation and benefit from public subsidies, grabbing lands, violating human rights and destroying communities along the way. Our investigation of fifteen ‘green’ multinationals conclusively shows that financial returns, not decarbonisation, is their primary business. ‘Green’ capital has taken over the energy transition, dictating its pace and blocking climate policies that hamper its profits. It is time to take on these greenwashing corporations and reclaim the entire energy sector through public ownership and democratic governance.Below you can find the full report, the common findings, and the individual profiles of the fifteen multinationals for download.Order print copy

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  • Assessing EU plans to import hydrogen from North Africa The cases of Morocco, Algeria and Egypt

    • Energy Democracy
    • Green Economy
    • Middle East and North Africa
    Report by
    Michael Barnard

  • Change Finance, not the Climate

    • Just Transition
    • Energy Democracy
    • Green Economy
    • Climate Crisis
    • Finance
    Publication by
    Oscar Reyes

  • Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails

    • Just Transition
    • Climate Crisis
    • Carbon Markets
    • Green Economy
    Book by
    • Tamra Gilbertson
    • Oscar Reyes

  • Bioenergy in the EU

    • Climate Crisis
    • Flex Crops
    • Green Economy
    Report by
    Bente Hessellund Andersen

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Key documents

Change Finance, not the Climate - In conversation with Oscar Reyes

Podcast

If we’re going to stop the climate catastrophe that is unfolding, we will need a radical overhaul of how many things work. Our financial system has played a big role in leading us to the brink of collapse, and must be completely overhauled if we are to stand a chance. What does a fair and responsible financial system look like?  How can we shift power to democratically accountable public enterprises that will move us more rapidly towards a fossil free world? 

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