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Is the Green Economy a new Washington Consensus?
February 2012
Working Group on Green Economy, WSF

The current environmental and climate crisis is not simply a market failure because nature is not simply a form of capital. Putting a price on nature under the label of the "Green Economy" is an attempt to expand the reach of finance capital and privatise our planet.

RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy
January 2012
Olivier Hoedeman

Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012.

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