Ecosystem services

$9.6tr in corporate risk over nature loss? What investors should know

Biodiversity

$9.6tr in corporate risk over nature loss? What investors should know

Which industries are most at risk, why it's hard to measure nature and what is the new meaning of "good business sense"

clock 14 October 2022 • 3 min read

Management

Does your business need natural capital accounts?

Natural Capital accounting is increasingly influential in economic circles, but can businesses also apply the principles to curb climate risks and advance their net zero strategies?

clock 17 May 2021 • 10 min read

Policy

'Beyond GDP': UN adopts landmark framework to integrate natural capital in economic reporting

UN Statistical Commission formally adopts System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting

clock 11 March 2021 • 2 min read

Biodiversity

The Dasgupta Review: What does the landmark biodiversity review actually recommend?

From ditching GDP as a measure of economic wealth to enhancing environmental education: BusinessGreen has rounded up all the recommendations of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity

clock 02 February 2021 • 10 min read

Policy

Environmental charities fear huge nature and climate cost from coronavirus crisis

Green groups come together to warn that welcome financial support from government is failing to go far enough

clock 15 April 2020 • 3 min read

Policy

UN draft plan aims to beef up global biodiversity protection

Proposals intended to replace a 2010 framework are set to be discussed by diplomats at a major UN summit in China in October

clock 15 January 2020 • 2 min read

Biodiversity

'We have scraped and scoured our environment to the bone'

Exchequer Secretary Simon Clarke's speech on the new 'Economics of Biodiversity' report - in full

clock 15 August 2019 • 4 min read

Management

AECOM opens Loch Ness Natural Capital Laboratory

Consultancy says environmental restoration project will provide invaluable test ground for natural capital management techniques

clock 02 August 2019 • 3 min read

Climate change

Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis

Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide

clock 05 July 2019 • 6 min read

Biodiversity

The end of the world as we know it - and I don't feel fine

The collapse in biodiversity poses serious threats to businesses that can no longer be ignored

clock 08 May 2019 • 3 min read