Founded in October 2011, the Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro, BVRio) is a market for trading “environmental assets”, including carbon credits, forest credits, industrial effluent credits, tire disposal credits, and recycling credits.
Biodiversity Offsets
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Banking Nature. Or cashing in on the destruction of nature
Stop biodiversity offsets: Thousands sign letter to the European Commission
More than 9,000 people and 67 organisations have signed on to a letter urging the European Commission to drop its plans for biodiversity offsetting. Biodiversity offsets would “harm nature and people” and “give power to those who destroy nature for profit”, the letter states.
Biodiversity offsetting makes dreams come true – for developers
Biodiversity offsetting is a licence to trash
Biodiversity offsetting in action: Bulldoze the UK’s ancient woodlands? No problem, just plant some trees
The Right Honourable Owen Paterson MP is the UK’s Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Commenting on his appointment in 2012, George Monbiot described it as “a declaration of war on the environment”.