Bank of Natural Capital | Valuing the Invaluable

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In 2007, world leaders setup the TEEB Study to find out the economic impact of biodiversity loss. Led by Pavan Sukhdev, 500+ scientists, business leaders, policy makers and citizens the conclusions were astounding: do nothing, and we lose trillions.

Nature should be valued for its intrinsic worth, over and above any economic factors. However, right now, we’re losing nature because we don’t price it in. We need to factor the value of nature into buying decisions and add a line for Natural Capital into annual reports and GDP.

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity from teeb4me on Vimeo.

We can’t afford to wait for these ideas to slowly gain acceptance: we need you to spread the word now. Join us on Facebook and Twitter. Tell your friends about TEEB and help make a real Bank of Natural Capital to safeguard the wealth of future generations.

TEEB Visualisation Challenge

In the last 50 years, 60% of ecosystem services have been degraded due to human impact.

We asked you to help visualise the results of our scientific study into the need to value nature.

See the results of the TEEB challenge

Videos

By Georgina Langdale, Dec 15

Pavan Sukhdev’s TED Talk now online

Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan …

General / Georgina Langdale, 15 Dec 11

By Georgina Langdale, Dec 14

The development challenge of ecological scarcity

Edward Barbier is the John S Bugas Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming, and serves on the Advisory Board of TEEB. His recent books are Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation and Capitalizing …

General / Georgina Langdale, 14 Dec 11

By Georgina Langdale, Dec 6

TEEB Advisory Board member appointed Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative

TEEB Advisory Board member, Sustainability leader and Worldconnector Herman Mulder has been appointed Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)’s Board of Directors. Herman Mulder is a member of the board of the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP) of the …