A new financial tool has emerged with the promise of meeting both sustainability goals and investors’ appetite for new assets: green bonds. In this blog post, Vanessa Perin explains how green bonds intersect with Brazil’s agribusiness sector and landscapes to produce unintended effects.

Do you remember the Dieselgate scandal that the German car giant Volkswagen was involved with? In this short essay, Steffen Boehm argues the scandal can be read through the lens of “carbon fetichism”: an extreme obsession with carbon emissions that has taken hold of large parts of environmental policymaking and activism. Read on!