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Bretton Woods Project / July 2012 This article looks at civil society voices that criticise the ‘green growth’ and ‘green economy’ agenda being promoted by the World Bank. Read article In the May 2012 report Inclusive Green Growth the World Bank defined green growth as […]
Background document prepared by Ecosystems Marketplace The Ecosystems Marketplace website has regular news and reports on environmental markets, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), climate change, water and biodiversity. In this introduction they provide a brief overview of the origins of the concept of ecosystem services […]
Responding to Climate Change (RTCC) climate change TV at Rio+20 / June 2011 Aly Abou-Sabaa from the African Development Bank explains why he believes it is so important to place an economic value on the environment because there is currently over exploitation of the oceans, […]
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) / December 2011 Different organisations present their diverse perspectives on the green economy at the UNRISD conference “Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing back the Social Dimension” (2011) including: what the objective of the green economy project is […]
World Development Movement / May 2012 WDM say there is no agreement on what the green economy is but they see it as a re-engineering of the global economy to respect environmental limits, prioritise social goals and end the obsession with limitless growth. Food and […]
Eva Zabey / TED talks / February 2012 Eva Zabey of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development puts forward the case for valuing nature through the concept of ecosystem services as a way to put the economy on a more sustainable path. She […]
Developed by a consortium of environment bodies and organisations in the United Kingdom This valuation toolkit is designed to support local authorities, local business, land developers and the community. Toolkit page They can calculate the value of Green Infrastructure to assess the benefits from: Woodland […]
Pablo Solón / June 2012 Pablo Solón (former Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations) says the current economic system has historically treated nature as a thing to be exploited and to make profit out of and this has led to the current ecological crisis. Instead […]
University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment / November 2010 This animated video asks if we are valuing nature correctly given that the world loses 35 million hectares (area the size of Nepal) of native forest each year and 3 species of plants and animals […]
Pavan Sukhdev / Yale lecture / November 2011 In this lecture at Yale economist Pavan Sukhdev explores in detail how nature can be valued. Business as usual is not an option because it is destroying natural capital that we all depend on. He outlines reasons […]