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Natural capital encompasses the world's living and non-living natural assets. It forms the basis for environmental and economic life through natural resource production and the provision of ecosystem services. Natural resources are the foundation of social and economic development. Given the critical role they play in maintaining biodiversity and enabling green economic growth, safeguarding such assets could not be more pressing.
To incorporate natural capital into national green growth planning, it is critical for decision-makers to have access to information that reflects the quality, quantity and spatial configuration of natural capital assets. The utility of natural capital analysis for policymaking is ultimately dependent on the availability of information, which can be provided through data platforms and tools.
The GGKP’s Natural Capital Expert Group is currently exploring state-of-the-art methods, models, data and tools for mainstreaming natural capital in national green growth policies and practices. The group is leveraging global momentum for green growth in order to better value, protect and enhance natural capital in national economic decision-making.
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Our efforts to protect and restore nature have overlooked the biggest single factor in biodiversity loss: the world’s inefficient and irresponsible use of natural resources.
Created a Post in Climate Change, Natural Capital
Unsustainable trade is behind the biodiversity crisis threatening our existence. But done sustainably, international commerce can help protect our planet’s precious resources.
The world needs to quadruple its annual investment in nature if the climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises are to be tackled by the middle of the century. Investing just 0.1% of global GDP every year in restorative agriculture, forests, pollution management and protected areas to close a $4.1tn (£2.9tn) financial gap by 2050 could avoid the breakdown of natural ecosystem “services” such as clean water, food and flood protection.
The Big Green Internet Ltd. On the doorstep of the City of London. Last winter planted 41,000 trees (as new hedgerows), have 60,000+ planned for this winter ahead and half a million thereafter. Creating significant new wildlife habitat and natural capital. Project to link isolated and fragmented woods is under way too. This is a significant ecological intervention with quick win results (hedgerows grow fast).
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Created a Post in Cities and Urban Development, Natural Capital, Water and Sanitation
Nature-based solutions play a crucial role in achieving water security. Read how New York City utilises nature to protect its unfiltered water supply.
Created an Event in Natural Capital, Climate Change
Created a Post in Natural Capital, Agriculture, Green Recovery from COVID-19
As policymakers prepare for the CBD COP 15 (Kunming, 11-24 October 2021), Co-Chairs of the UNEP/International Resource Panel have published science-based principles to help them move beyond pledges and commitments.
The report features four principles to turn biodiversity loss into biodiversity value through Natural Resource Management:
- Know your true impact - Value-chain transparency - Plan together - Integrated landscape planning - Grow with nature - Nature-based and circular solutions - Value nature - Recognize nature’s benefits
Those principles are also illustrated by a selection of case studies implemented successfully around the world.
Created an Event in Natural Capital, Climate Change, Forestry
Created a Post in Climate Change, Gender, Natural Capital
Mangroves are key to conservation in Kenya, but Kenya's mangroves have been exploited for centuries for shipbuilding and construction materials among others. Lamu archipelago, around the northern coast of Kenya, accounts for more than half of the country's mangroves, but across the country approximately 40% of this commodity has been degraded. This is where the region's women come to the rescue to run mangrove conservation effort.