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Lake Tota in Colombia

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.

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WAVES Regional Workshop in Costa Rica

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.

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Botswana President Highlights WAVES in State-of-the-Nation Address

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.

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NCA Featured Prominently at World Parks Congress in Sydney

Natural capital accounting was showcased as a tool for mainstreaming protected areas into economic development planning and tracking relevant indicators inside and outside parks.

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Natural Capital Declaration Workshop in Capetown

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.

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CBD COP 12 Session

At the CBD COP 12 in Pyeongchang, Korea, NCA emerges as a tool that changes the way biodiversity is positioned in the development agenda.

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Constructing an ecosystem account at a WAVES-Philippines training.

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.

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A Moroccan Vocation Center; education is one component of intangible capital.

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.

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WAVES Senior Environmental Economist, Urvashi Narain, reports from the latest training workshop on forest accounts in India.

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