Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s review presents the first comprehensive economic framework of its kind for biodiversity. It calls for urgent and transformative change in how we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world....
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region enjoys an exuberant natural wealth; with 16% of the planets land, the region is home to 40% of the world’s biological diversity. This report investigates and provides a good overview of the regions efforts to mainstream natural capital...
The European Commission’s DG R&I and DG ENV and BiodivERsA are setting-up a European co-funded Partnership focussed on Rescuing biodiversity to safeguard life on Earth. Acting as an overarching platform and connecting national, local and European Research & Innovation programs this Partnership aims at achieving...
A new research paper by the European project (MAIA (Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting looks into linking biodiversity into national economic accounting with a specific focus on the implementation of biodiversity indicators to the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA)....
A recent report by Swiss Re Institute places Spain in the 15th position in the table of countries with the largest share of territory with its biodiversity and ecosystems in a fragile state among the 195 analyzed. This result derives from the analysis of the...
The report, "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: A business case for re/insurance", by Switzerland reinsurance company Swiss Re reveals that over half (55%) of global GDP is dependent on biodiversity and ecosystem services. It also shows that in a fifth of all countries, ecosystems are in...
Imagen: Pixabay The Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have published a report on how Dutch financial sector is exposed to risks as a result of their loan’s portfolio dependency on ecosystem services. According to the document, Dutch financial...
The Dutch financial institutions have hundreds of billions of euros in outstanding loans on which they may be exposed to risks as a result of loss of biodiversity. DNB, together with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, PBL), have concluded in the...
Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services: An EU Ecosystem Assessment This report presents an ecosystem assessment covering the total land area of the EU as well as the EU marine regions. The assessment is carried out by Joint Research Centre, European Environment Agency, DG...
Imagen: Pexels. Increasing protected areas worldwide at least 30% would lead to economic benefits five times higher than the costs and to ~$250 billion/yr in increased economic output and ~$350 billion/yr in improved ecosystem services. These data derived from the most comprenhensive report on economic implications...
