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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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The Royal Society

Join economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta and Nobel-prize winning biologist Sir Venki Ramakrishnan to mark the publication of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review. Commissioned by the UK Government, this independent, global Review will present a new economic framework, grounded in… Read More

New report out from WEF and McKinsey on natural climate solutions and their integration into countries' green economic recovery plans as well as corporate strategies. It confirms estimates that NCS can provide one-third of the climate mitigation to reach a 1.5- or 2-degree pathway by 2030—and at a lower cost than other forms of carbon dioxide removal.

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https://www.weforum.org/reports/consultation-nature-and-net-zero
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EU's Ursula von der Leyen calls for 'Paris-style agreement' for biodiversity

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen has pitched the idea of an international biodiversity agreement along the lines of the Paris accord. She called it urgent for the world.

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"Survey puts a value on natural capital of new woodlands"
This study provides quantitative evidence of the natural capital benefits of planting new woodlands in the UK. These benefits include not only the projected revenues of selling harvested timber, but also environmental benefits such as carbon sequestration and water storage that will provide benefits to society more broadly.

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https://www.farminguk.com/news/survey-puts-a-value-on-natural-capital-of-new-woodlands_57394.html

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"A new study in Nature Sustainability incorporates the damages that climate change does to healthy ecosystems into standard climate-economics models."
The study also shows that existing models have been underestimating the cost of climate damages to society by a factor of more than five. This reinforces the need for more aggressive carbon emissions efforts.

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https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/01/study-accounting-for-value-of-nature-reinforces-paris-cli...

How feeding squirrels fluorescent hazelnut paste can reduce global warming and improve biodiversity

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55817385
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CLIMATE SEASONALITY AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR SOIL EROSION DURING SUMMER IN EXTRA-CARPATHIAN MOLDOVA

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Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction(PEDRR), United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), SDG Academy

Do you want to find out how nature can help in protecting people from disasters and solving the climate crisis? Then this free online course is for you! Learn what young people and teachers, policy makers, practitioners, businesses and engineers can do to get involved in our race against the… Read More