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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.
Created a Post in Climate Change, Natural Capital
New UNEP synthesis provides blueprint to urgently solve planetary emergencies and secure humanity’s future
Created a Post in Cities and Urban Development, Climate Change, Natural Capital
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures has published its first chapters as part of the Living Reference
Created a Post in Natural Capital
The world’s wetlands are slipping away.
It’s been 50 years since an international treaty to protect wetlands was created but, around the world, wetlands are still disappearing three times faster than forests.
This is so powerful - the Great Green Wall. Visible from space, holding back the greatest desert on earth. I want to walk in these greens. Well, maybe one day...
Created a Post in Industry and Entrepreneurship, Climate Change, Natural Capital
We can manage it if we can map it. Just heard about this "Supply Chain Atlas" that German companies put together to show impacts on GHGs, air, land and water in 8 industries like chemicals, machinery and food.
Did you know there was a movie on the Great Green Wall? Walk with the people who fight it out here every day on the borders of habitable Africa. See the trailer here!
Now you really gotta ask yourself - what's this worth to you? Seals make a comeback on France's beaches.
Yep, we're still finding new species in places like Madagascar. But how much longer? Biodiversity decline is so stark and so high, next time we might miss this little guy before we even know he exists.
Created an Event in Natural Capital, Climate Change
Created a Post in Agriculture, Climate Change, Natural Capital
In three new reports, FAO and The Nature Conservancy share the potential of Nature-based Solutions in agriculture to deliver nutrition for people worldwide while restoring nature and the climate