On 27 January 2015, England’s Natural Capital Committee (NCC) published its third State of Natural Capital Report. The NCC’s mandate is to “advise the Government on how to ensure England’s ‘natural wealth’ is managed efficiently and sustainably, thereby unlocking opportunities … Continue reading
“To protect the diversity of our natural surroundings we need to promote the diversity of our funding sources. The Natural Capital Financing Facility is a new EU funding source that helps businesses to protect nature and adapt to climate change. … Continue reading
The last few days I was attending the first Dresden Nexus Conference. The event, co-organized by Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (my institute), United Nations University and Technische Universität Dresden (our local university), unified the catch words … Continue reading
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
The European Business and Biodiversity (B@B) Platform has published a report entitled “B@B Workstream 1: Natural Capital Accounting for Business: Guide to selecting an approach”. The report is the outcome of the work conducted on the Natural Capital Accounting Workstream … Continue reading
About the Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek If you are interested in environmental compensation and biodiversity offsets, there are certainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of information from different sources, locations and viewpoints publicly available (something which wasn’t this … Continue reading
This month, a newly developed free, open-source, stand-alone software tool to calculate environmental losses and gains was released. Being part of the work of the Natural Capital Project, OPAL (Offset Portfolio Analyzer and Locator) enables users to estimate the impacts … Continue reading
The question whether accountants “can save the planet” as the subtitle of the new book by Jane Gleeson-White (“Six Capitals. The revolution capitalism has to have — or can accountants save the planet?”) suggests, points to the core of the … Continue reading
About the Biodiversity Offsets Newsweek If you are interested in environmental compensation and biodiversity offsets, there are certainly good news: there is now a whole bunch of information from different sources, locations and viewpoints publicly available (something which wasn’t this … 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