Thread by @elleprovocateur

Michael Sheren, #UNDP Senior Advisor, G20 Chair:

"... because the #Southern part of the world has value far greater than large elements of the Northern []. And we start thinking about & putting prices on water, on trees, on #biodiversity, we find, where does that sit?"

#COP15

/2: "I'm doing a lot of work out of #Asia and I say that my next door neighbor Indonesia is the left lung of the world, and obviously #Brazil is the right. And #Africa - absolutely critical."

#NewDeal4Nature = #NewDeal4Colonialism

/3: "And #Africa - absolutely critical - and we need their natural capital as a system-based world more than we need that 66 billion we've got sitting in the basement of the Bank of England."

/4: Eva Gladek, founder of Metabolic: "a large part of this discussion is around, you know, #nature is the new gold. [] we know that we rely on it for our lives, but it's not easily movable, it's not easily tradable..."

Metabolic clients include WWF, Pepsi, Governments, etc.

/5: Rob Allen, HBAR:

"our mission is actually to bring the balance sheet of the planet to the public ledger. What that really means is that we are looking to tokenize natural assets. We're putting them on [], the Hedera Ledger..."

#MVGX to push "#Carbon As A Service" #CaaS

/6: PK: "...it [digital] allows us to quantify & monetize natural capital. It allows us to quantify & monetize human capital. It allows us to quantify & monetize cultural habitat, & at the same time allows meaningful integration of these forms of capital w/ financial capital."

/7: Phoebe Koundouri, Chair, #UN SDSN, Global Climate Hub cont'd:

>"So at last, & probably the first time in the history of humankind, we are able to measure & monetize all capitals."<

Quoting from Nov 2022 UN discussion highlighted by @TimHinchliffe👇

/8: Yannis Ioannidis, SDSN co-founder: "... you all talk about monetizing nature which makes perfect sense, but if I may dare to go out of my waters here, & say there are also principles that are monetizable... I think it's something that for me, as a technologist, excites me."

/9: PK: "...about monetizing nature, [] this is the most human-centric part of economics-the value derives from human preferences."

More to the point, the value derives from a human-centric, Euro-centric patriarchal ideology built on white supremacy, colonialism & imperialism.

/10:

Q: "What exactly does he mean by "tokenising" & "transfer that value around the world"?

EDSX: "Tokenized natural resources have the potential to become one of the largest crypto asset classes due to the sheer scale of the world's natural assets."

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