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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, Water and Sanitation
Giving Nature a Boost
Created a Post in Blue Economy, Natural Capital, Tourism and Hospitality
I recently read that ocean acidification levels will have a disruptive effect on marine ecosystems already over the coming two decades.
To prevent that, we need to stop atmospheric concentration asap.
Does somebody have more information about the thresholds which will endanger specific marine lifeforms?
To prevent that we need to stop atmospheric concentration asap.
Does somebody have more information about the thresholds which will endanger specific marine life forms at which pH threshold?
I read that pH 7.95 will be already very critical for plankton.
A collapse of the marine ecosystem needs to be prevented, no?
Created a Post in Agriculture, Natural Capital, Tourism and Hospitality
Let's talk on the declaration of great bull called mahanandi great bull declaration form the asia Pacific work station centred at mahanandi
Created a Post in Cities and Urban Development, Climate Change, Natural Capital
Financing to Scale Up Nature-based Solutions
Created a Post in Natural Capital, Forestry, Green Recovery from COVID-19
NEW RESEARCH
Basque Centre for Climate Change and GGKP developed an NCA methodology to assess the costs, benefits, and investment gap for achieving select natural capital-related SDG targets and applied it to 20 countries. The report found that for every nature-related SDG target analysed the benefits of investing in natural capital outweigh the costs.
By knowing which intervention will have the greatest impact in terms of natural capital and enhancement and financial return, this data can help governments and financial institutions prioritize their investments and meet their 2030 targets.
More from lead author Dr. Anil Markandya: ggkp.org/ZaY
Financing Nature-based Solutions
Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies out now
Created a Post in Natural Capital, Sustainable Finance
Biodiversity loss and financial stability
Healthy ecosystems provide "ecosystem services" (material and water supply, climate regulation, pollination, etc.) on which economic activities depend. Their alteration could disrupt economic activities with potential consequences for financial stability. For this reason, central banks and supervisors are taking an increasing interest in the financial risks associated with biodiversity loss (physical risk) as well as those potentially generated by the incompatibility of business strategies and models with economic and regulatory changes aimed at protecting biodiversity (transition risk). This post presents an initial analysis of the French financial system's exposure to these risks.
Created a Post in Climate Change, Forestry, Natural Capital
A global agreement on Biodiversity cannot wait anymore.
The biggest biodiversity summit in a decade, Cop15 in Kunming, China, where world leaders were expected to strike a deal to halt and reverse the destruction of ecosystems by reaching a Paris-style agreement for nature was postponed until 2021 and now is likely to be delayed a fourth time as a result of the Omicron variant.
In the meantime, during the pandemic, the destruction of the world’s forests increased sharply. Dangerous levels of greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in Earth’s atmosphere as humans consume beyond planetary boundaries while the world’s governments have missed every single target they have set for themselves on averting the destruction of Nature.
“We’ll get it done. Come hell, high water … or Covid. When and how, I don’t know,” says Basile van Havre, co-chair of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) working group responsible for crafting the Cop15 agreement.
Created a Post in Natural Capital
Honoring the Legacy of E. O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy
The two naturalists helped to pioneer the field of conservation biology and remained determinedly hopeful that humanity would make better choices.