Carving new commodities out of Nature: Clarifying conceptual issues & overview of initiatives

This presentation was given by Jutta Kill at the European Cross Networking Meeting on the Global Crises in Brussels on 3 May 2012. It describes how Ecosystem financing can be seen as the creation of additional fictitious commodities out of those parts of Nature that have until now not been viewed, considered, treated and / or exchanged as commodities. These possible new "commodities" include intellectual property, carbon, species, ecosystem functions, natural beauty and water.