The debate about the natural environment has typically been a battle of irreconcilable positions: greens versus industry, says Oxford Economics Professor and author Dieter Helm in this blog. Helm says the natural environment is too often treated as a zero-sum game played out between the eco-warriors and the industrial lobbyists. He says this is both wrong and dangerous and that unless natural assets are treated as a core part of the economy the consequences will be dire.

A new kind of global debt crisis is brewing - due to decades of over-borrowing from our planet’s natural capital asset base. The future shock for business is the potential for profit to be wiped out, says Dorothy Maxwell, author of a new book on natural capital and business. 

HRH The Prince of Whalers says, "The Magna Carta - the 800th anniversary of whose signing in England we celebrate this year - established some of the central principles of human rights and individual liberty that hold today…I cannot help wondering if the Sustainable Development Goals and the climate agreement in 2015 could form the basis for a similarly long-standing contract for the earth and humanity's relationship to it." He says in this blog that new economic tools and a broader economic

Expanding ocean protection could return an increase in jobs, resources and services that far outweigh the costs, according to an analysis of new research commissioned by WWF on marine protected areas. The analysis comes months before governments make critical decisions that will direct the fate of the ocean for generations to come.