Since June 2016, the European Central Bank (ECB) has injected around 67 billion euro into the Eurozone economy to fund corporate bond purchases. This is part of a money creation programme known as ‘quantitative easing’, a scheme aimed at stimulating the Eurozone economy through the purchase of corporate bonds. However, in the name of growth, this programme supports companies at the heart of the climate crisis.
Nature-based Solutions: Why are states not focusing efforts on systemic transformations to address the drivers of biodiversity loss?
By Meenal Tatpati (Women4Biodiversity) and Valentina Figuera Martínez (Global Forest Coalition) Over the past decade, the concept of ‘Nature-based Solutions’ (NbS) has been promoted within global environmental governance, with several big conservation NGOs and...