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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, Sustainable Finance
How can nature-based solutions (NBS) tackle societal challenges while positively impacting nature?
Join our side event at COP27 to learn more about successful NBS projects and further opportunities to accelerate NBS investment in Africa.
MBD Joint Pavillion | 16 Nov @ 17:00 (UTC+2)
?️ https://ggkp.org/Zqh ? https://youtube.com/c/AfDBGroup/streams ?️ https://ggkp.org/AGECommunity
Created a Post in Natural Capital
Swapping debt for nature?
Find out more about finance mobilization for nature-positive investments and sustainable development at the launch event of the "Debt-for-Nature-Swaps" report. The study has been conducted by the African Development Bank, the Potomac Group and WWF.
Dr. Vanessa USHIE (AfDB, Acting Director of the African Natural Resources Centre) will be giving her opening remarks on activating climate and nature-based debt transactions in Africa and what role the African Development Bank can take in this.
For more information on the agenda, click the link below.
Created a Post in Natural Capital, Blue Economy, Climate Change
Are you working on nature-based solution (NBS) projects in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Please share with us your experience on current funders and financiers of projects for nature, water and climate resilience and infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa.
Are you a potential funders and financiers of these projects? You are also more than welcome to fill in the survey below.
Created a Post in Blue Economy, Cities and Urban Development, Natural Capital
How can nature-based solutions build climate resilience and meet growing infrastructure needs in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Learn more & share your experience:
?️ Join the NBS stakeholder workshop — 5 Oct | https://ggkp.org/ZTi ? Share your SSA #NBS projects — 7 Oct | https://ggkp.org/ZTW
Created a Post in Climate Change, Blue Economy, Natural Capital
Are you or do you know creative 14-30 year olds with something to say about the climate crisis?
#CreateCOP27 is an annual art contest designed to raise awareness about the important climate change-related decisions that need to be taken by leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP27 being held in Egypt in November 2022.
Submissions due by 16 October. Find out more about how to enter and the contest prizes.
Created a Post in Natural Capital, Agriculture, Forestry
This week, parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity are meeting to develop a new blueprint for nature and people before COP 15 in December.
What will the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework mean for Africa?
Share your thoughts, and join the opening plenary of the Africa Green Economy Conference on 27 June to learn more! ? ggkp.org/AGEC
Created an Event in Natural Capital, Cities and Urban Development, Climate Change
Created a Post in Green Recovery from COVID-19, Natural Capital
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting
Created a Post in Climate Change, Natural Capital, Water and Sanitation
Nature-based solutions can mitigate emissions while at the same time enhancing the resilience of communities to climate change
Created a Post in Sustainable Finance, Natural Capital
Two months after they adopted bitcoin as an official currency, Central African Republic launched a project to tokenize the nation's natural resources.
Under the 'Sango initiative', the country has the ambition to "transform natural resources into equally valuable and important digital assets through an unprecedented new administrative and economic movement."