A recent World Bank mission in Colombia brought several relevant institutions together. WAVES-Colombia Coordinator Henry Alterio spoke to the WAVES team about the process.
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Jessica Alvsilver, an environmental economist with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, spoke to WAVES about a new collaborative effort.
Costa Rica and WAVES host a first-of-its-kind event bringing together 40 participants from nine countries in Latin America to build a community of practice on NCA, and focus on water accounts.
President Ian Khama says Botswana is integrating the value of natural capital into development planning and a more inclusive measure of national wealth and GDP.
Natural capital accounting was showcased as a tool for mainstreaming protected areas into economic development planning and tracking relevant indicators inside and outside parks.
Two initiatives representing the corporate and financial sector—the NCC and NCD—recently convened to discuss how to embed natural capital-related risks in their operations.
At the CBD COP 12 in Pyeongchang, Korea, NCA emerges as a tool that changes the way biodiversity is positioned in the development agenda.
WAVES Senior Environmental Economist, Sofia Ahlroth, writes about the keys to success in advancing ecosystem accounts in the Philippines: people, technical know-how and…karaoke.
A workshop on wealth accounting was recently held in Morocco to look at the role human and social capital (‘intangible capital’) play in public policy.
WAVES Senior Environmental Economist, Urvashi Narain, reports from the latest training workshop on forest accounts in India.