Africa/Global: Selling Nature to Save It? Biodiversity and the Rise of Green Developmentalism

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the "green" World Bank, reflect attempts to regulate international flows of "natural capital" by means of ....green developmentalism. Green developmentalism, with its promise of market solutions to environmental problems, is blunting the North-South disputes that have embroiled international environmental institutions. By its logic, nature is constructed as a world currency and ecosystems become warehouses of genetic resources for the biotech industry.