Natural Capital at Risk: The top 100 externalities of business

This report offers a high level perspective on the world’s biggest natural capital risks for business, investors and governments.To provide a business perspective, it presents natural capital risk in financial terms. In doing so, it finds that the world’s 100 biggest risks are costing the economy around $4.7 trillion per year in terms of the environmental and social costs of lost ecosystem services and pollution. Many of these natural capital costs are found in the developing world, but the resulting goods and services are being consumed by resource intensive supply chains around the planet – thus it is a global challenge for a globalized world. 

Date:
2013
Publisher:
Trucost
Author(s):
Trucost
Details:
Publication, 82pages
Language:
English
Topic:
Natural Capital Accounting - General