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Alternatives, Economic, Global, Mary Louise Malig, Nature, Pablo Solón, Português, Reflexiones Sistémicas

TFFF: Uma falsa solução para as florestas tropicais

Leia o post completo aqui [Language English, Español, Português, Français, Bahasa] Por Mary Louise Malig e Pablo Solón O governo brasileiro pretende lançar o Fundo de Financiamento para Florestas Tropicais (TFFF – Tropical Forest Finance Facility em inglês) em novembro de 2025, durante a 30ª Conferência das Partes da Convenção-Marco das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas (COP 30), em Belém do Pará. Essa iniciativa, que reúne os países com … Continue reading TFFF: Uma falsa solução para as florestas tropicais

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Economic, Global, Mary Louise Malig, Nature, Pablo Solón, Publications, Reflexiones Sistémicas

TFFF: Solusi Palsu untuk Hutan Tropis

Baca postingan selengkapnya di sini [Language English, Español, Português, Français, Bahasa] Oleh Mary Louise Malig dan Pablo Solón Pemerintah Brasil akan menjadi tuan rumah Konferensi Para Pihak ke-30 Konvensi Iklim PBB (COP 30) yang akan diselenggarakan di Belém do Pará pada November 2025, di mana mereka berencana untuk meluncurkan Tropical Forest Finance Facility (TFFF) atau Fasilitas Pembiayaan Hutan Tropis. Inisiatif ini, yang mempertemukan negara-negara dengan hutan hujan terbesar di … Continue reading TFFF: Solusi Palsu untuk Hutan Tropis

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Economic, English, Global, Mary Louise Malig, Nature, Pablo Solón, Publications

TFFF: A False Solution for Tropical Forests

Read the full post here [Language English, Español, Português, Français, Bahasa] By Mary Louise Malig and Pablo Solón The Brazilian government is hosting the upcoming 30th Conference of Parties to the UN Climate Convention (COP 30) in Belém do Pará in November 2025, where it plans to launch the Tropical Forest Finance Facility (TFFF). This initiative bringing together the countries with the most rainforests was facilitated on the sidelines … Continue reading TFFF: A False Solution for Tropical Forests

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TFFF: Una falsa solución para los bosques tropicales

Lea la publicación completa aquí [Language English, Español, Português, Français, Bahasa] Por Mary Louise Malig y Pablo Solón El gobierno de Brasil busca lanzar en noviembre de 2025 durante la 30.ª Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP 30) en Belém do Pará, el Fondo de Financiamiento para los Bosques Tropicales (TFFF – Tropical Forest Finance Facility en inglés). Esta … Continue reading TFFF: Una falsa solución para los bosques tropicales

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Economic, Economy..., English, Global, Mary Louise Malig, Publications, Reflexiones Sistémicas

Decoding the digital economy

by Mary Louise Malig Read the publication in full here Content:IntroductionScope of the Digital EconomyThe Platform EconomyThe Value of DataThe Technology of the Digital WorldPreliminary conclusions and Afterthoughts Introduction Have you ever taken a ride in an Uber or Lyft? Do you have a room or apartment that you have registered as a place to rent out on AirBnB? Have you ever bought and downloaded … Continue reading Decoding the digital economy

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Economic, English, Mary Louise Malig, Reflexiones Sistémicas

Preliminary conclusions and Afterthoughts

There is no doubt that the digital economy is vast and complex and with the rapid changes in technology that impacts various elements, the understanding of all its moving parts is therefore a challenge in and of itself. The innovations that led to even more progress in new technologies, infrastructure, software, programs, algorithms, blockchain technologies and information, communications technologies, have had and continue to have … Continue reading Preliminary conclusions and Afterthoughts

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The Technology of the Digital World

Innovation has moved forward the development of new digital technologies, improvement of older models of software or hardware, and research and development for even more, keeping up with the growth of the digital economy. There are many new digital technologies, but for this paper, we have selected a few key ones that are critical in enabling the digital economy and serve as the building blocks … Continue reading The Technology of the Digital World

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Economic, English, Mary Louise Malig, Reflexiones Sistémicas

The Value of Data

It is quite important to note that all the issues discussed in the preceding chapters on digital platforms, the digital economy and all the layers to it, that none of that would be possible without data. In the digital economy, data is the new oil. It is an extremely valuable resource that fuels the whole system. Data is not only valuable to the corporations that … Continue reading The Value of Data

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Economic, English, Mary Louise Malig, Reflexiones Sistémicas

The Platform Economy

Digital platforms are best described as a technology based space which facilitates the meeting and matching of individuals or businesses that would not have otherwise met. For example, a digital platform, using its data driven infrastructure and operations, is able to then more effectively bring together sellers and consumers who have the same interests and are suited for each other. There are two types of … Continue reading The Platform Economy

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Economic, English, Geopolitical, Global, Pablo Solón, Reflexiones Sistémicas, Social Movements, Xavier Ricard Lanata

Will the coronavirus end capitalism?

Xavier Ricard Lanata: The dilemmas of the reconfiguration of capitalism The crisis of globalization comes from 2008. Commercial exchanges have been declining. There was a contraction process that predated the virus. Now the virus has aggravated this situation. What is going to happen? Those who are creditors of capital will look for ways to increase the value of it at any cost. In the northern … Continue reading Will the coronavirus end capitalism?

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Free Trade first: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation will be convening governments and business to discuss trade and economic integration in Chile right before the Climate Summit

By: Mary Louise Malig* [en español] After the massive mobilizations and climate strikes that took place in numerous cities around the planet, with an estimate of more than six million people participating, many are now turning their attention to the coming United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference or COP 25 for short. COP 25 will be help in Santiago, Chile from December 2-13, 2019 … Continue reading Free Trade first: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation will be convening governments and business to discuss trade and economic integration in Chile right before the Climate Summit

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The whole of Mercosur in exchange for a plate of beef

By: Mary Louise Malig, Global Forest Coalition After 20 years of negotiations, the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is entering a crucial moment where it can come to a tragic end. To paraphrase a well-known saying, Mercosur is offering its kingdom for a plate of lentils, or in this case, its sovereignty for a plate of beef. Free trade agreements are not only about commodity … Continue reading The whole of Mercosur in exchange for a plate of beef

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Analysis, Commons, Economic, English, Various

The Most Radical Aspect of Jeremy Corbyn’s Program? Democratizing the Economy

BY MICHAL ROZWORSKI. This story was first published at Jacobin.  So much about the 2017 Labour election campaign has been heartening: the energy, the conviction, the full-throated embrace of remaking government in the service of the many. All of the main campaign pledges — from free tuition to thousands of new homes to a stronger National Health Service — will change where money and resources flow … Continue reading The Most Radical Aspect of Jeremy Corbyn’s Program? Democratizing the Economy

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Alternatives, Analysis, Economic, Economy..., English

The Real Circular Economy

[Sharon Ede, December 2016, Complementary Currency Resource Center] How Relocalising Production With Not-For-Profit Business Models Helps Build Resilient and Prosperous Societies This Commons Transition Special Report was written by Sharon Ede, a sustainability ideas transmitter, writer and activist working in Adelaide, Australia. Ede is also a co-founder of the Post-Growth Institute, one of Commons Transition’s most esteemed Partner Projects. We feel that the Post-Growth Institute’s … Continue reading The Real Circular Economy

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El reposicionamiento de Beijing en América Latina

[Ulises Noyola Rodríguez, Alai, 18/10/2016] La caída de los precios de las materias primas evidencia la fragilidad de la relación económica entre China y América Latina que en la actualidad registra una importante desaceleración en las transacciones comerciales, situación de la cual Estados Unidos busca sacar ventaja a fin de reposicionarse en la región. El gobierno chino decidió apoyar la construcción de grandes obras de … Continue reading El reposicionamiento de Beijing en América Latina

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Economic, English, Patrick Bond

The Wages of Sub-Imperial Assimilation: BRICS Fantasies and Unintended Revelations

[Patrick Bond, 14/10/2016, Goa, India] A Brazilian leader’s faux pas spoke volumes about the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) heads of state summit underway in Goa this weekend. The country’s foreign minister (and occasional presidential candidate) José Serra told an interviewer last month that the BRICS included Argentina. And as he stumbled while spelling out the acronym, Serra also had to be prompted to recall that South Africa … Continue reading The Wages of Sub-Imperial Assimilation: BRICS Fantasies and Unintended Revelations

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Economic, Ecosocialism, Español, Nature, Various

Manifiesto final del III Encuentro Ecosocialista Internacional

Las organizaciones convocantes del III Encuentro ecosocialista internacional celebrado en Bilbao, los días 23, 24 y 25 de septiembre de 2016, CONSIDERAMOS: Que el capitalismo se ha desarrollado de espaldas y enfrentado con las dos dependencias básicas que posibilitan la vida humana. Ignora, en primer término que, como el resto de las especies vivas, obtenemos de la naturaleza lo que necesitamos para vivir y, en … Continue reading Manifiesto final del III Encuentro Ecosocialista Internacional

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El Impacto de la crisis mundial sobre el modelo posneoliberal en el Ecuador

[François Houtart y Pablo Caller i Salas] Para analizar una situación, evidentemente compleja, vinculada con una coyuntura internacional caótica que escapa a la capacidad de acción de cualquier país, especialmente del Sur, se debe salir de explicaciones simples reduciendo los procesos sociales a un voluntarismo colectivo o personal, que desembocan sobre acusaciones mutuas, sin excluir la utilización de la violencia institucional o espontánea. Tampoco se … Continue reading El Impacto de la crisis mundial sobre el modelo posneoliberal en el Ecuador

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Economic, Various

¿Llegó el fin del idilio China – América Latina?

[Lucy Hornby / Andrés Schipani, Milenio,19/01/2015] Nicolás Maduro, el presidente venezolano, anunció una inversión de 20 mil millones de dólares (mdd) procedente de China. Pero no dijo si era lo que buscaba: un rescate financiero de su más grande acreedor. La confusión habla mucho sobre cómo la desaceleración de la economía china y el desplome de los precios de las materias primas ponen a prueba … Continue reading ¿Llegó el fin del idilio China – América Latina?

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“Soy un economista arrepentido porque la economía se ha olvidado de la energía”

[Arnaldo Pérez Guerra, Rebelión] El economista catalán Joan Martínez Alier visitó Chile para participar en el Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política, que se desarrolló entre el 21 y el 24 de octubre en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) de la Universidad de Chile. Allí se lanzó la edición chilena de su libro El ecologismo de los pobres, reeditado por Editorial Quimantú, en colaboración … Continue reading “Soy un economista arrepentido porque la economía se ha olvidado de la energía”

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