Banking Nature

Banking Nature is a documentary that looks at the growing movement to monetize the natural world and to turn endangered species and threatened areas into instruments of profit.

Banking Nature
Written byDenis Delestrac
Sandrine Feydel
Directed byDenis Delestrac
Sandrine Feydel
Music byStéphane Lopez
Country of originFrance
Original languagesEnglish
French
Production
ProducerVia Découvertes
EditorGuillaume Quignard
Running time88 minutes
Production companyARTE France
Release
Original releaseFebruary 3, 2015 (2015-02-03)

Synopsis

Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac delve into the world of green banking in this documentary, reporting that investors buy up the habitats of endangered species and then sell them in the form of shares. The film includes a montage of images of nature, reflective voice-overs and interviews with bankers, economists, activists and policymakers. The economist Pavan Sukhdev is interviewed, saying nature can best be protected by sticking a price tag on it. Pablo Solon is interviewed saying this subjecting of nature to free market forces as a "license to kill" it. Vandana Shiva is also interviewed.

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