15 Apr Exploring the needs and challenges that business and financial sectors have when exploring and completing biodiversity measurement and natural capital management accounting

Posted at 14:05h in Biodiversity, Natural Capital, News

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Organisations promoting the recently presented Align project invite businesses and financial institutions from the EU (and beyond) to participate in their first Annual Survey to gather input to develop guidance and recommendations on a standard for biodiversity measurement and natural capital management accounting. Align is...

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02 Mar Viewer of Georeferenced Economic Accounts for the Andalusian Forest Systems

Posted at 17:20h in Natural Capital, News

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The project valuation “REnta and the Capital of the Montes de ANdalucía (Recaman)” (Income and Capital of the Andalusian Mountains”), promoted by the Environmental Economy Group (GEA) of the Institute of Policies and Public Goods (IPP) of the Spanish Center for Scientific Research (CSIC), has...

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02 Feb Nature is a blind spot in economics that we ignore at our peril, warns Dasgupta Review on the economics of biodiversity

Posted at 18:00h in Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Natural Capital, News

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The prestigious Dasgupta Review highlights the critical role nature plays in supporting healthy societies, resilient economies and thriving businesses, while simultaneously painting a clear picture of what we stand to lose. It calls for a fundamental change in how we think about and approach economics...

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02 Feb The Economics of Biodiversity. The Dasgupta’s Review

Posted at 15:46h in Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Library, Natural Capital

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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....

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25 Jan Mainstreaming of natural capital and biodiversity into planning and decision making. Cases from Latin America and The Caribbean

Posted at 11:51h in Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Library, Natural Capital

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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...

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10 Dec Exchange-Traded Deforestation

Posted at 20:03h in Library, Natural Capital, Sustainable Finance

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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are booming, synthetic ETFs are re-surfacing and semi-transparent ETFs have recently emerged – but their structures hide entrenched deforestation risk from investors. Planet Tracker identifies the key decision makers for each instrument in the growing ETF universe and calls for specific...

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30 Oct How natural capital approaches can support sustainable investments and markets

Posted at 16:25h in Natural Capital

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In its article on How Natural Capital Approaches Can Support Sustainable Investments and Markets, experts from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, from World Bank Group) explores how COVID-19 has brought the connections between nature, people, and the economy into sharp relief. ...

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25 Oct Health-related costs of air pollution per European citizen is €1,276 per year

Posted at 17:42h in Climate Change, Natural Capital Accounting, News

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Image: Pixabay The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) has published a study analyzing data from 2018 of 432 cities in 30 countries (EU plus the UK, Norway and Switzerland, with total population of 130 million inhabitants) about the health-related social costs of air pollution. The document...

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01 Oct Webinar: Assessing appropriate legal structures for investing in natural capital

Posted at 17:21h in Natural Capital, News

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The webinar on "Assessing appropriate legal structure to invest in natural capital" will draw from the EIB’s recent publication Investing in Nature”: financing conservation and nature-based solutions, which provides a practical guide on how to put together investment propositions....

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30 Sep New guide to transform the food system through multi-capital assessment

Posted at 11:04h in Natural Capital, Natural Capital Protocol, News

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Developed to support businesses in implementing the TEEBAgriFood Evaluation Framework, TEEB for Agriculture and Food: Operational Guidelines for Business provide a practical way for businesses to understand and act upon their impact and dependency on natural, human, social, and produced capital. ...

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