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Conservation and development at scale: entanglements of global finance and 'green' mega projects 
Convenors:
Ben Eyre (Università di Bologna)
Oiara Bonilla (University of Bologna)
Marc Brightman (Università di Bologna)
Aneil Tripathy (University of Bologna)
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Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Tuesday 26 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel addresses the overlap and tension between different conceptions of conservation and development revealed by ethnographic attention to 'green' mega projects. Drawing on multiple perspectives it critically explores entanglements between global finance and green promises

Long Abstract:

Green finance has grown enormously in the past thirty years through an array of global experiments including REDD+, green bonds, and insurance-based derivatives. Translating environmental emergency to amenable concepts and instruments created by or for financialisation and financial institutions, such as risk, and built on competing systems of accounting, climate change and environmental management has become core to global finance and its moral turn. Part of this movement has seen a move to 'mega projects' built on green (and blue) promises. Many of these projects work in and expand protected areas and impact communities that have very different attitudes to 'development'. In these projects, there is often overlap and tension between conceptions of conservation and development that are not always compatible. In particular, local and indigenous perspectives are frequently sidelined. This panel reflects on the complex relationships that such initiatives rely upon, bringing together different perspectives for a critical reflection on how global finance is entangled in 'green' mega projects. These entanglements could be approached in a variety of ways including (but not limited to):

• Infrastructure

• Conceptions of scale

• Accounting for impact

• Innovation and experimentation

• Divestment movements, and activism

• Local and indigenous perspectives

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 26 October, 2021, -
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