Feb 25 2021: "An expected dash by big corporations for #offsets to meet their climate targets has prompted financial exchanges to launch #carbon#futures contracts to capitalise on what could be a multi-billion dollar market."
"...their market is expected to grow to as much as $50 billion by 2030. Among the major corporations that say they expect to use them to compensate for any #emissions they cannot cut from their operations & products are #Unilever, EasyJet, Royal Dutch #Shell & #BP."
"The Institute for International Finance's Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets, launched by U.N.’s Special Envoy for Climate Action Mark Carney" aspires to "create a multi-billion dollar offset market in the coming months."
"With a new US admin., & [] the vaccination rollout under way, now is a good time for the major economies of the west (& ideally the world) to sit down & devise a new international #monetary order."
"As part of that there should be widespread #debt cancellation, especially the gov't debt held by #central#banks. We estimate that amounts to approximately $25tn of gov't debt in the major regions of the global economy."
"Whether debt cancellation extends beyond that should be central to the negotiations between policymakers as to the construct of the #new#system ...The implications for bond yields, post-debt cancellation, need to be fully thought through and debated."
"Those being vaccinated now are, whether they realize it or not - part of the phase 3 experiment. They're part of a #vaccination#experiment. And the companies have openly acknowledged this in their reports to the regulatory agencies." - Dr Byram Bridle
#Covid19 Symposium 2021: Dr Byram Bridle, Viral Immunologist, University of #Guelph
Note that Bridle is a strong proponent of vaccines. ["As a viral #immunologist who develops immunization strategies to prevent infectious diseases and treat cancers, I teach the value of high-quality, well-validated vaccines & passionately promote their use."]
Jan 25 2021: Klaus Schwab on Feb 2020 BC/AC [before/after #covid] moment:
"Major change happened when the US #BusinessRoundtable, which represents major companies in the US, actually issued a statement embracing the stakeholder concept."
Schwab: "The crisis has shown us we need a mindset change & we need also to move from a society where business & governments have very separate tasks, to a society whereas the two #together w/ #civilsociety work hand in hand."
Schwab: "We still measure only how a company uses the #financialcapital. Whether it's really efficient in terms of
allocation of financial capital. But we should measure how a company, in which way a co., uses #naturalcapital [] so that's the essence of #stakeholdercapitalism."
"With Centres in 13 countries the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network works w/ governments, leading companies, civil society, innovators & experts from around the world to pilot new approaches to technology adoption & governance."
"Projects will be scaled across #India & globally. As part of the WEF's global network, the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India will work closely with project teams" across the globe.
This thread will follow Feb 5 2021 thread [India #FarmersProtests Goes Vogue] exploring sudden #celebrity uptake - as gov't struggled to contain #resistance.
Here we can study #GlobalCitizen & structure/mechanisms of such NGOs, financed to serve corporate/imperial interests.
#GlobalCitizen model: nurturing of #celebrity worship as a "pop & policy" model to harvest/exploit targeted youth demographic. Via partnerships w/ #Rihanna, celebrities, influencers, athletes, - it intends to become world's "leading international voice, educator, & influencer".
#GlobalCitizen is the Global Poverty Project, Inc.
UK: "We are a sub recipient of funding from the #Gates Foundation (via Global Poverty Project Inc)."
2019: $8,445,887.00 "To mobilize global public support for the Sustainable Development Goals" #SDGs