Publication
Title
Capitalizing on green debt : a world-ecology analysis of green bonds in the Brazilian forestry sector
Author
Abstract
Green bonds represent an increasingly popular way to match “environmental sustainability,” growth, and the aspirations of global financial capital. In this article, we leverage a world-ecology approach to unpack and make sense of green bonds as public/private constructions that shape and subordinate the complex ecologies of territories to the needs of finance and reproduce the global patterns of uneven development and capitalist accumulation. Through the study of recent green bond issuances realized by private companies active in the forestry sector in Brazil, we discuss how green bonds as a “new” form of “green” debt put nature at work and transform the territories and natural elements in the global south into “temporal and spatial fixes” for the needs of global financial capital.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of world-systems research. - Riverside, Calif.
Publication
Riverside, Calif. : 2021
ISSN
1076-156X
DOI
10.5195/JWSR.2021.1062
Volume/pages
27 :2 (2021) , p. 411-438
ISI
000686356200009
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UAntwerpen
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Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 17.08.2021
Last edited 30.08.2024
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