Markets for Ecosystem Services by WBCSD and IUCN

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development  and The World Conservation Union  has just published Markets for Ecosystem Services – New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment (1.3 MB).  The report shows how at a fundamental level, all economies and businesses depend directly or indirectly on the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable supply of ecosystem services.  Environmentalists have long argued that conserving ecosystems and sustaining the services they provide is a pre-requisite for prosperity; business, governments and society are catching up.  The report intends to help establish a shared vision of market-based approaches to nature conservation.

The report is timely given the recent reports of mammalian extinction threats.

Markets for Ecosystem Services – New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment (1.3 MB)   PowerPoint Presentation (1.5 MB)

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