By banksters, I mean the crowd who brought you the world-economy meltdowns of 2000 and 2007, the bailouts that your children and grandchildren will still be paying for, toothless "regulation" of international financial speculation in Basel III, the jobless recovery, and now expect to make a killing in unregulated carbon markets. A real killing: an estimated 300,000 die yearly from the impacts of climate change. The perps include the usual suspects: big banks, indistinguishable from vulture cap and OTC finance since the abolition of the Glass-Steagall law, the Bretton Woods institutions they control (IMF, World Bank), bound up together in the Washington Consensus that keeps the Third World in abject poverty. The same powers refuse direct aid to the world's poor -- when aid comes, it takes the form of debt that forces fire-sale prices of state assets and natural resources, or is "tied" to products and service of the donor country, i.e. just another subsidy to corporate lobbyists. The UN refers to the triple crisis of food, climate and fuel; phony "aid" worsens all three.
The climate deal with the banksters will be sealed before people even know about it.
Look at this sequence of events:
3-5 Sep UNEP Global Consultation with Major Groups and Stakeholders on Rio+20, September 1, 2011 and the 64th Annual UN DPI: NGOs Conference, Bonn where European NGOs called for:
1. A ‘green’ economic system [that] must promote social equity, gender equity and intergenerational equity. A truly sustainable ‘green economy’ [that] functions within the limits of the planet, and ensures a fair distribution of resources among all countries and social groups - as well as between men and women. We need an economy that provides incentives for zero-waste, low-carbon economies that enhance and restore the natural environment, while also providing new ‘green’ livelihoods, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for women as well as men. That is why 10 YFP SCP implementation should be the basis of Green Economy policies.
2. In order to achieve a truly green economy, we need better regulation of international financial actors and financial flows. Specific instruments to achieve a greening of the economy were proposed ...
- New indicators for well-being. It is in the interest of youth and future generations,that bold steps will be taken towards a green economy in the context of sustainable development and
poverty eradication. In order to achieve the transition to green economies, the actual political
implementation of concepts such as new (set of) indicators for measuring development and the
internalisation of external costs must ensured and backed up by effective governance systems.
- Planetary boundaries to be assessed and made the basis of decision-making on the basis of best
available scientific knowledge, taking into account the precautionary principle
- The introduction of a global Financial Transaction Tax [on international transfers], to contribute to financing protection of our global commons and of sustainable development and investments in green and inclusive economies.
- Eco-efficiency instruments are important, but there is also a need for ‘sufficiency’ instruments(social innovation, caps on resource use, …), especially in the Northern countries to tackle the over-consumption of -- and excessive pressure on -- natural resources.
3. Independent Technology Assessment...
4. Nuclear and uranium lifecycle control...
These repeated NGO demands, beginning at COP-15 in Copenhagen, have been studiously ignored by the UN, WBCSD, G20 and Washington Consensus. By no coincidence, they would slow down speculation. Wall St, the City and the gnomes of Zurich hate the FTT and will do anything to stop it.
22 Sep U.S. Green Building Council, UN Environment Programme and World Business Council for Sustainable Development Announce Partnership on Rio+20 - followup at Oct 4 Toronto conference
Oct 11 UNEP and GEF's Open Forum on the Carbon Benefits Project at the World Bank, Washington
Oct 13-14 UNEP-RONA Regional civil society consultation for North America, Washington
Oct 19-20 UNEP Finance Initiative, Washington DC - its Global Roundtable. Look at the program and speakers for day 1 and day 2. If that ain't "the fix is in" I'm a lousy analyst. Confirmed participants include:
Accession International, Inc.
Acciona Energia Mexico
AE
ALIDE-Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions
American University
APG Asset Management US Inc
Argo Insurance Group
ASN Bank
ASOBANCARIA
Aviva Investors
AXA Group
Banco Bradesco Banco do Brasil Banco Rabobank International Brasil S.A. Banco Santander Brasil BANCOLDEX S.A. BANCOLOMBIA Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank of Montreal Banking Association South Africa Barclays PLC BECAUSE Bentall Kennedy (U.S.) LP Bernstein Center, Columbia University BICBANCO Bloomberg BNDES BNP PARIBAS BNY Mellon Brazilian Federation of Banks Brown & Co BSD Consulting BSR
Caisse des Depots, Québec CalPERS Calvert Investment Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership Carbon Disclosure Project Carbon War Room cent.Force CO.,LTD Ceres, Inc. CFA Institute Change Logic LLC China Development Bank China Merchants Bank CIBC Citigroup ClearBridge Advisors Colonial First State Global Asset Management (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) Commercial Mortgage Alert Connexis Strategy Consultants Conservation International CREDIT ANDORRA Credit Suisse Cybaxx Enviromental Service Co. Ltd
DEG Deloitte Desjardins Group DEUTSCHE BANK Division for Sustainable Development, UN DESA DnB NOR DVFA
EarthSea EBF EBRD ECOFACT AG Econoler ecos Ecosystem Marketplace EFIC EIRIS Embassy of France Environmental Law Institute EPA Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) Eurizon Capital EUROBANK EFG European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Evironmental Resources Management
F&C REIT Asset Management FD FGVces FirstRand Limited FirstRand Ltd FMO Forest Footprint Disclosure Project Fox School of Business, Temple University Fundaciao Social
GiCaP Products GIIRS Global Energy Assessment Global Leadership Interlink GLOBE Foundation GUARDIAN HOLDINGS LIMITED
Handelsbanken Harvard Business School Helm Group Hermes Focus Asset Management Ltd HSBC Bank plc
Indepedent Consultant Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Industrial Development Corporation Inflection Point Capital Management Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd Insurance Australia Group Inter-American Development Bank Inter-American Development Bank Inter-American Development Bank International Finance Corporation International Institute for Sustainable Development IRRC Institute Itau Unibanco
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated JPMorgan
KfW KPA Pension KPMG
Macquarie Bank Manulife Financial MaRS Discovery District mecu Limited Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands MINISTRY OF NIGER-DELTA, Nigeria Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. MSCI, Inc. Munich Re Munich Reinsurance Company Mutualista Pichincha
National Academy of Sciences National Association of Insurance Commissioners, USA National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Canada Nedbank Ltd
Oceanic Insurance Group OPIC
Pace Law School Pacific Institute Pax World Management LLC Portfolio 21 Investments Principles for Responsible Investment PROFONANPE PRUPIM
Rabobank Nederland Raiffeisen Zentralbank Austria AG RBC Capital Markets Renco Technologies Private Ltd. Royal Bank of Canada Royal instute of thecnologhy ROYAL MICROFINANCE OF ZAMBIA LIMITED
Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance Santam Santander Brazil Sarah Cleveland SEB Shell Oil Company Social Investment Organization Societe Generale Sovereign SSgA Standard Bank State Street Corporation State Street Global Advisors Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Sustainable Business Institute (SBI) Sustainable Prosperity Sustainalytics Swiss Re
TD Bank Group The Conference Board The Co-operators Group Ltd. The George Washington University Law School The Jervey Group The Northern Trust Company The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. The Transition Group The World Bank Trillium Asset Management, LLC
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. General Services Administration U.S. Green Building Council U.S. House Natural Resources Committee
UBS UNDP UNFCCC UniCredit Uniethos United Nations Foundation University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership University of Waterloo US Agency for International Development US Department of Energy
Village Corps Virgin Islands Legislature
Washington State Insurance Commissioner’s Office WestLB Willis World Economic Forum World Green Building Council World Resources Institute WWF China WWF US WWF-SA
XL Insurance
Zenith Bank PLC
And at the Jan 2012 Climate Finance & Carbon Markets Africa:
Ariesta Ningrum, Team Lead, Sustainable Development Mechanisms, UNFCCC
Nelly Magubane, Director General, Department of Energy, South Africa
Adam Simcock, CEO, Carbon Check, South Africa
Geoff Sinclair, Head of Carbon Trading, Standard Bank, UK
Kevin Whitfield, Head, African Treasury and Financial Products Unit, Nedbank Capital, South Africa
Henk Sa, Managing Director, Ecometrix, South Africa
Antoine Degri, CEO, ADERCI, Ivory Coast
Ntombifuthi Ntuli, Business to Business Programme Officer, Danish Embassy, South Africa
Enoch Lerato Liphoto, Senior Advisor, Climate Change, Eskom Holdings, South Africa
Hussein Elhag, Executive Director, Africa Energy Commission, Algeria
Georges Bakaly, Managing Director, WESD Capital, DRC
Bubu Jallow, Chief Technical Adviser, Department of Water Resources, The Gambia
Amos Wafula Wekesa, Environmental and Climate Change Advisor, VI-Agroforestry Programme Eastern Africa, Kenya
Philippe Decq, Sales and Marketing Manager, South Europe,Africa and Middle East, DnV, France
Ciska Terblanche, Managing Director, CDM Africa, South Africa
Heba Rabie, Regional Manager, Africa and Middle East, The Gold Standard Foundation, Egypt
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