The Amazon is everywhere
"A handful of global giants dominate the industrialisation of the Amazon #rainforest, extracting tens of billions of dollars of raw materials every year, according to an analysis that highlights how much value is being sucked out of the region with relatively little going back in."

"The combination of irresponsible behaviour by some private companies with “the dismantling of public #conservation and #Indigenous policies in the past four years led to a twofold increase in deforestation rates in the region compared to the previous ten years average.”

"One of the problems, observers say, is that an extractivist development model has prevailed in the Brazilian Amazon ever since it was opened up by the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s."

"This logic, which has prevailed since the first European colonisers invaded South America more than 500 years ago, is now under intense scrutiny because the Amazon is so degraded that scientists warn this pillar of the global climate is close to collapse."

Excerpts via:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/02/the-multinational-companies-that-industrialised-the-amazon-rainforest
#TNCs #SupplyChain #Cattle #Meat #Mining #Logging #Deforestation #Eucalyptus #Plantations #Roads #Extractivism #Destruction #Biodiversity #Climate regulator

Felted fabric - The investigation has just begun.
"And so have the bigger questions about the billions spent by government with #consulting firms, the sharing of confidential information and just how much #taxpayers may have been played"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-29/tax-confidences-broken-and-billions-at-stake-how-pwc-has-upended/102398798
#TNCs #TaxAvoidance #VestedInterests external #Consultants. #Governance

"PwC scandal shows consultants, like church officials, are best kept out of state affairs.
The cost to Australian taxpayers (through lost revenue from Australian companies using tax havens) is estimated to be about A$6 billion a year (US$5 billion)."

https://theconversation.com/pwc-scandal-shows-consultants-like-church-officials-are-best-kept-out-of-state-affairs-205560
#TNCs #TaxAvoidance #VestedInterests external #Consultants. #Governance

RT @JJMichalek
Excited to present a bunch of new work at #TRBAM2023 on #EVs, #TNCs, #ridesourcing, #Uber, #Lyft, #smartcurbs, and #fooddelivery!

w/ @MatthewBruchon @aniruddh_mohan @CostaSamaras @jha_economics @parth_PIT @inesliaz @DestenieNock @DocCHarper et al. #TRBAM

Prof. Michalek will present our work on quantifying reductions needed in the marginal electricity grid across the US so that EVs achieve carbon parity with some of the most efficient gasoline vehicles (spoiler : some states need to do more!)
Tue 1:30 PM at @NASEMTRB #TRBAM
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RT @JJMichalek
Excited to present a bunch of new work at #TRBAM2023 on #EVs, #TNCs, #ridesourcing, #Uber, #Lyft, #smartcurbs, and #fooddelivery!

w/ @MatthewBruc…
https://twitter.com/JJMichalek/status/1612139214593720327