a report called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
"comprehensive and compelling economic case for the conservation of biodiversity",
According to TEEB, the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the banking crisis. The report puts the cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion per year.The figure comes from adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide.
TEEB has the potential to be the trigger that transforms how business measures, and therefore looks after, these life-critical assets.
New tools are also nearly ready to help individual companies measure the impact of their day-to-day operations on ecosystems
Biodiversity Banking. This is a framework which allows biodiversity to be reliably measured, and for market-based solutions to place a monetary value on ecosystem services affected.
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