Abstract

The use of financial instruments for climate change mitigation puts communities and nature at risk. Success is measured by capital accumulation rather than the ability to protect or enhance human and non-human nature. From cap and trade programmes that allow corporations to buy and sell ‘units’ of pollution on financialized markets, to forest offset credits, the financialization of nature presupposes the separation and quantification of the Earth’s cycles and functions with carbon, water, and biodiversity. Financialization causes these cycles to be treated as units to be sold in financial and speculation markets. This article reviews the theoretical frameworks of financialization of nature and proliferating climate change policies. I explore the flaws of the new carbon pricing and carbon tax platform in Colombia and its impacts on Afro-Colombian communities in the coal mining region of Cesar, in northeast Caribbean and related Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) projects on the Pacific coast of Colombia.

中文翻译：

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自然和气候变化政策的金融化：对受采矿影响的非裔哥伦比亚社区的影响

摘要

使用金融工具缓解气候变化使社区和自然面临风险。成功的衡量标准是资本积累，而不是保护或增强人类和非人类本性的能力。从允许企业在金融市场上买卖污染的“单位”的总量控制和贸易计划，到森林抵消信用，自然的金融化以碳，水和生物多样性对地球循环和功能的分离和量化为前提。金融化将这些周期视为要在金融和投机市场中出售的单位。本文回顾了自然金融化和激增的气候变化政策的理论框架。