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The Natural Capital Accounts (NCA) for Forests covering the period 2016 to 2020
Technical Report
This report highlights the changes in animal populations, their use, and partial accounts for the...
Technical Report
The Rapid Environment Economic Assessment (REEA) model can be used to analyse government investment...
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Plan Nacional de Cuentas Ambientales de Chile
La propuesta del Plan Nacional de Cuentas Ambientales que se detalla en este documento constituye un esfuerzo institucional para integrar la información económica ambiental, y de esta manera dar cuenta de nuestro desarrollo económico.
Natural Capital: An Overview
The benefits derived from natural resources include food, recreation and clean air and water. The aim of valuing these resources is to quantify better the cost of their degradation. This POSTnote summarises how to value natural capital, discusses the advantages and challenges of approaches and describes some initiatives to secure natural capital for the future.
Comprehensive Wealth in Canada: Measuring What Matters in the Long Run
Comprehensive wealth focuses on the role of people, environment and economy.
UK Natural Capital: Monetary Estimates, 2016
Natural assets provide a wide range of environmental services that make human life possible. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have been developing methods to value these services, aiming to highlight the relative importance of services provided by the UK’s natural assets.
Status and Trends in Global Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital: Assessing Progress Toward Aichi Biodiversity Target 14
The Convention on Biological Diversity uses six indicators to assess progress toward Aichi Biodiversity Target 14 (ecosystem services), leaving many elements of the target untracked. We identify 13 ecosystem services as directly essential for human well-being, and select a set of 21 datasets as indicators of the state of natural capital underpinning those services, the benefits derived from them, and distribution of access to those benefits.
Curso Introductorio a las Cuentas Ambientales (CEPAL)
Curso Introductorio a las Cuentas Ambientales, organizada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Noviembre 21-24, 2016 en Asunción, Paraguay.