Dario Kenner (Why Green Economy?) has published a new report entitled “Who should value nature? Sustainable business initiative — outside insights”. You can access the report online and find a pdf following: Kenner_2014_Who-should-value-nature. For more information please see the related … Continue reading
CDC Biodiversité’s Mission Economie de la Biodiversité has published a report on payments for ecosystem services, entitled “Du Sud au Nord: regards croisés sur les Paiements pour Services Environnementaux”. The report (in French) was issued in November 2014 in the … Continue reading
Joshua Bishop, WWF-Australia and Chloe Hill, Green Economy Technical Advisor for WWF Mekong region, Phnom Penh, Cambodia are the editors of a new book on payments for ecosystem services that has been published in association with IUCN and UNEP, end … Continue reading
Daniel Moura has started a new discussion in the Biodiversity Professionals Group on LinkedIn on the value of valuing nature. This is based on a recent article published in the research news section of the University of Cambridge (UK), entitled … Continue reading
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has launched a new and improved A-Z of Biodiversity. This is a cluster of online glossaries about biodiversity. Thanks to Eward Pollard for pointing to this. Try it out here and find some more … Continue reading
Josianne Claudia Sales Rosa and Luis E. Sánchez have published a new paper on “Is the ecosystem service concept improving impact assessment? Evidence from recent international practice” in Environmental Impact Assessment Review (Volume 50, January 2015, Pages 134–142). You can … Continue reading
This report introduces the Ecosystem Services Review for Impact Assessment (ESR for IA), a six step method to address project impacts and dependencies on ecosystem services as part of the environmental and social impact assessment process. The steps build on … Continue reading
In our very inside, there is a child in each of us which makes that we hardly ever loose our joy of playing. That’s probably why things like the following game usually attract our attention far more than simple words … Continue reading
This is a guest post on behalf of Moha Haddouch, PES Project national coordinator at UNDP Morocco. A project on the protection agrobiodiversity in Morocco is seeking help with the organization of three workshops in the scope of payments for … Continue reading
A vast collection of cartoons illustrating biodiversity loss — very entertaining and alarming at the same time. Pictures often say much more and much easier than words can do. Have a look and get carried away at: http://conservationbytes.com/toothless/cartoons/ Here are some … Continue reading