{"id":662,"date":"2019-12-04T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=662"},"modified":"2019-12-04T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:34:46","slug":"how-the-climate-change-hoax-is-driven-by-big-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"How the Climate Change Hoax is Driven by BIG Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate and the Money Trail<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By F. William Engdahl
\nGlobal Research, December 04, 2019
\nNew Eastern Outlook<\/p>\n

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The hidden truth behind the Climate Debate at COP25, Madrid. This article was first published in September 2019.<\/p>\n

Climate. Now who wudda thought.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>The very mega-corporations and mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world economy over recent decades, whose pursuit of shareholder value and cost reduction who have wreaked so much damage to our environment both in the industrial world and in the under-developed economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, are the leading backers of the \u201cgrassroots\u201d decarbonization movement from Sweden to Germany to the USA and beyond.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Is it pangs of guilty conscience, or could it be a deeper agenda of the financialization of the very air we breathe and more?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Whatever one may believe about the dangers of CO2 and risks of global warming creating a global catastrophe of 1.5 to 2 degree Celsius average temperature rise in the next roughly 12 years, it is worth noting\u00a0who is promoting the current flood of propaganda and climate activism.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Green Finance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Several years before Al Gore and others decided to use a young Swedish school girl to be the poster child for climate action urgency, or in the USA the call of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a complete reorganization of the economy around a Green New Deal, the giants of finance began devising schemes for steering hundreds of billions of future funds to investments in often worthless \u201cclimate\u201d companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013 after years of careful preparation, a Swedish real estate company, Vasakronan, issued the first corporate \u201cGreen Bond.\u201d They were followed by others including Apple, SNCF and the major French bank Credit Agricole. In November 2013 Elon Musk\u2019s problem-riddled Tesla Energy issued the first solar asset-backed security. Today according to something called the Climate Bonds Initiative, more than $500 billion in such Green Bonds are outstanding. The creators of the bond idea state their aim is to win over a major share of the $45 trillion of assets under management globally which have made nominal commitment to invest in\u00a0\u201cclimate friendly\u201d projects<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonnie Prince Charles, future UK Monarch, along with the Bank of England and City of London finance have promoted \u201cgreen financial instruments,\u201d led by Green Bonds, to redirect pension plans and mutual funds towards green projects. A key player in the linking of world financial institutions with the Green Agenda is outgoing Bank of England head\u00a0Mark Carney.<\/strong>\u00a0In December 2015, the Bank for International Settlements\u2019 Financial Stability Board (FSB), chaired then by Carney, created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), to advise \u201cinvestors, lenders and insurance about climate related risks.\u201d That was certainly a bizarre focus for world central bankers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2016 the TCFD along with the City of London Corporation and the UK Government initiated the Green Finance Initiative, aiming to channel trillions of dollars to \u201cgreen\u201d investments. The central bankers of the FSB nominated 31 people to form the\u00a0TCFD<\/a>. Chaired by billionaire\u00a0Michael Bloomberg<\/strong>\u00a0of the financial wire, it includes key people from JP MorganChase; from BlackRock\u2013one of the world\u2019s biggest asset managers with almost $7 trillion; Barclays Bank; HSBC, the London-Hong Kong bank repeatedly fined for laundering drug and other black funds; Swiss Re, the world\u2019s second largest reinsurance; China\u2019s ICBC bank; Tata Steel, ENI oil, Dow Chemical, mining giant BHP Billington and David Blood of Al Gore\u2019s Generation Investment LLC.<\/span>\u00a0In effect it seems the foxes are writing the rules for the new Green Hen House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bank of England\u2019s Carney was also a key actor in efforts to make the City of London into the financial center of global Green Finance. The outgoing UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, in July 2019 released a White Paper, \u201cGreen Finance Strategy: Transforming Finance for a Greener Future.\u201d The paper states, \u201cOne of the most influential initiatives to emerge is the Financial Stability Board\u2019s private sector Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), supported by Mark Carney and chaired by Michael Bloomberg. This has been endorsed by institutions representing $118 trillion\u00a0of assets globally<\/a>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0There seems to be a plan here. The plan is the financialization of the entire world economy using fear of an end of world scenario to reach arbitrary aims such as \u201cnet-zero greenhouse gas emissions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs Key Actor<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The omnipresent Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs, which spawned among others ECB outgoing President\u00a0Mario Draghi<\/strong>\u00a0and Bank of England head Carney, has just unveiled the first global index of top-ranking environmental stocks, done along with the London-based CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project. The CDP, notably, is financed by investors such as HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, American International Group, and State Street Corp.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new index, called CDP Environment EW and CDP Eurozone EW, aims to lure investment funds, state pension systems such as the CalPERS (the California Public Employees\u2019 Retirement System) and CalSTRS (the California State Teachers\u2019 Retirement System) with a combined $600+ billion in assets, to invest in their carefully chosen targets. Top rated companies in the index include Alphabet which owns Google, Microsoft, ING Group, Diageo, Philips, Danone and, conveniently,\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter Greta, AOC and Co.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point events take on a cynical turn as we are confronted with wildly popular, heavily promoted climate activists such as Sweden\u2019s\u00a0Greta Thunberg<\/strong>\u00a0or New York\u2019s 29-year-old\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/strong>\u00a0and the Green New Deal. However sincere these activists may be, there is a well-oiled financial machine behind promoting them for gain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Greta Thunberg is part of a well-connected network tied to the organization of\u00a0Al Gore<\/strong>\u00a0who is being cynically and professionally marketed and used by such agencies as the UN, the EU Commission and the financial interests behind the present climate agenda. As Canadian researcher and climate activist,\u00a0Cory Morningstar<\/strong>, documents in an excellent series of posts, what is at stake is a well-knit network that is tied to US climate investor and enormously wealthy climate profiteer, Al Gore, chairman of\u00a0Generation Investment group.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gore\u2019s partner, ex-Goldman Sachs official David Blood as noted earlier, is a member of the BIS-created TCFD. Greta Thunberg along with her 17-year-old US climate friend, Jamie Margolin, were both listed as \u201cspecial youth advisor and trustee\u201d of the Swedish We Don\u2019t Have Time NGO, founded by its CEO Ingmar Rentzhog. Rentzhog is a member of Al Gore\u2019s Climate Reality Organization Leaders, and part of the European Climate Policy Task Force. He was trained in March 2017 by Al Gore in Denver, and again in June 2018, in Berlin. Al Gore\u2019s Climate Reality Project is a partner of\u00a0We Don\u2019t Have Time<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), who made a huge splash in her first days in the US Congress for unveiling a \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d to completely reorganize the US economy at a cost of perhaps $100 trillion, is also not without skilled guidance. AOC has openly admitted that she ran for Congress at the urging of a group called Justice Democrats. She told one interviewer, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be running if it wasn\u2019t for the support of Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress. Umm, in fact it was it was these organizations, it was JD and it was Brand New Congress as well, that both, that asked me to run in the first place. They\u2019re the ones that called me a year and a half ago\u2026\u201d Now, as Congresswoman, AOC\u2019s advisers include Justice Democrats co-founder, Zack Exley. Exley was an Open Society Fellow and got funds from among others the Open Society Foundations and Ford Foundation to create a predecessor to Justice Democrats to recruit select candidates for office.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Real Agenda is Economic<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The links between the world\u2019s largest financial groups, central banks and global corporations to the current push for a radical climate strategy to abandon the fossil fuel economy in favor of a vague, unexplained Green economy, it seems, is less about genuine concern to make our planet a clean and healthy environment to live. Rather it is an agenda, intimately tied to the UN Agenda 2030 for \u201csustainable\u201d economy, and to developing literally trillions of dollars in new wealth for the global banks and financial giants who constitute the real powers that be.<\/span><\/p>\n

In February 2019 following a speech to the EU Commission in Brussels by Greta Thunberg, then-EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, after gallantly kissing Greta\u2019s hand, appeared to be moved to real action. He told Greta and the press that the EU should spend hundreds of billions of euros combating climate change during the next 10 years. Juncker proposed that between 2021 to 2027, \u201cevery fourth euro spent within the EU budget go toward action to mitigate climate change.\u201d What the sly Juncker did not say was that the decision had nothing to do with the young Swedish activist\u2019s plea. It had been made in conjunction with the World Bank a full year before in September 26, 2018 at the One Planet Summit, along with the World Bank, Bloomberg Foundations, the World Economic Forum and others. Juncker had cleverly used the media attention given the young Swede to promote his climate agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 17, 2018, days following the EU agreement at the One Planet Summit, Juncker\u2019s EU signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Breakthrough Energy-Europe in which member corporations of Breakthrough Energy-Europe will have preferential access\u00a0to any funding<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0members<\/a>\u00a0of Breakthrough Energy include Virgin Air\u2019s Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Alibaba\u2019s Jack Ma, Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, HRH Prince Al-waleed bin Talal, Bridgewater Associates\u2019 Ray Dalio; Julian Robertson of hedge fund giant, Tiger Management; David Rubenstein, founder Carlyle Group; George Soros, Chairman Soros Fund Management LLC; Masayoshi Son, founder Softbank, Japan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Make no mistake. When the most influential multinational corporations, the world\u2019s largest institutional investors including BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, the UN, the World Bank, the Bank of England and other central banks of the BIS line up behind the financing of a so-called green Agenda, call it Green New Deal or what, it is time to look behind the surface of public climate activist campaigns to the actual agenda. The picture that emerges is the attempted financial reorganization of the world economy using climate, something the sun and its energy have orders of magnitude more to do with than mankind ever could\u2014to try to convince us ordinary folk to make untold sacrifice to \u201csave our planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 2010 the head of Working Group 3 of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr\u00a0Otmar Edenhofer<\/strong>, told an interviewer, \u201c\u2026one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world\u2019s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation\u00a0or the ozone hole<\/a>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0Since then the economic policy strategy has become far more developed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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F. William Engdahl<\/strong>\u00a0is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he\u00a0holds\u00a0a degree in politics from Princeton University and\u00a0is a best-selling author\u00a0on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine\u00a0\u201cNew Eastern Outlook.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.<\/em><\/p>\n

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