Bank of Natural Capital

How to handle the trade-offs linked to wetland protection and restoration

Anand Chandrasekhar — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:04:35 +0000

Some types of wetlands are viewed negatively by the general public. For example, swamps, marshes and bogs, are often seen as insalubrious places, which favour the spread of diseases such as malaria. Furthermore, even though the protection and restoration of …

Out of Africa The “Gaborone Declaration” and its Implications for Rio+20

Pavan Sukhdev — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:02:19 +0000

Pavan Sukhdev – pavansukhdev.com Gaborone, Botswana – Saturday 26th May Which environmental economist said: “we need to take stock and attach value to our natural resources and ecosystems such that we may include their value in planning and decision making …

Pavan Sukhdev’s TED Talk now online

Georgina Langdale — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:54:18 +0000

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 …

The development challenge of ecological scarcity

Georgina Langdale — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:22:44 +0000

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 …

TEEB Advisory Board member appointed Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative

Georgina Langdale — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:49:03 +0000

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 …

TEEB course page at Yale University

Georgina Langdale — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:21:57 +0000

Yale have launched their TEEB@Yale webpage. For lecture videos and course information go to: http://environment.yale.edu/TEEB

Aldersgate Group adds voice to call for protection of biodiversity

Georgina Langdale — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:11:00 +0000

The Aldersgate Group (AG) has published a report on business and biodiversity, making the case for incorporating the value of nature into decision making in order to safeguard long-term economic growth. The report conservatively estimates that the failure to address …

TEEB course held at Yale – video highlights

Georgina Langdale — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:28:52 +0000

Yale University and TEEB teamed up to create a course on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. The course is designed to train students in the foundations of valuation of ecosystem services, dynamic interactions of people and ecosystems and their …

TEEB Conference 2012, Extended Call for Papers and additional topics

Georgina Langdale — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:55:30 +0000

It is a pleasure to announce the TEEB Conference 2012, Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature: Challenges for Science and Implementation, taking place in Leipzig, Germany, March 19-22, 2012. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is a major international initiative …