As the ecological crisis accelerates, the EU is promoting “nature credits” as a supposed solution – inviting markets to help fix what markets have helped destroy. Forests, wetlands, coastlines and farmlands are being reframed as financial assets: quantified, packaged and traded.
This new report published with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation investigates the European Commission’s plans, the pilot projects already underway, and exposes the political motivations behind nature credits and the interest groups shaping this agenda. It shows why making ecological collapse profitable is not restoration — it’s a dead end that risks deepening existing inequalities and power imbalances.
This publication offers a clear, systemic analysis and a tool for movements, researchers and decision-makers working toward an ecological and socialist alternative — one that treats nature not as a certificate to buy, but as the shared foundation of our collective future.
