Features and Blogs

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Making the link between the SDGs and natural capital accounting

Participants gathered in The Hague for the 2nd Forum on Natural Capital Accounting for Better Policy.

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Natural Capital Accounting and Policy

This new series of briefs demonstrates the progress made by five WAVES countries in translating NCA into policy, and also looks at three thematic areas: forests, water and energy.

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Realising the value of accounting for the forests of the Victorian Central Highlands, Australia

Accounts highlight the benefits from plantations and natural forests, to inform forest management policies.

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Accounting for natural capital in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dr. Kim Reuter with the Gaborone Declaration on Sustainability in Africa (GDSA) blogs on NCA progress in the region, and its critical importance.

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Mighty mangroves of the Philippines: Valuing wetland benefits for risk reduction and conservation

The WAVES program, The Nature Conservancy and others worked closely with the Philippines Government to assess the value of mangroves nationally.

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Optimizing government policy to achieve sustainability: The natural capital accounting way

Portia Segomelo shares experiences from Botswana's natural capital accounting program.

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Rwanda co-hosts WAVES’ 7th annual meeting

Around 70 representatives of eight WAVES countries, plus donors, UN agencies, academics, and experts, attended the two-day meeting in Kigali.

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Philippines holds national conference on natural capital accounting

The Philippines Government, in partnership with the World Bank, held a multi-stakeholder National Conference on Natural Capital Accounting in Manila.

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The benefits of sharing knowledge on natural capital accounting

Following a workshop in the Dominican Republic, participants from Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay shared their perspectives on sharing knowledge for strengthening NCA.

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Natural capital and ecosystem services making WAVES in Oceania

WAVES was well represented at the Oceania Ecosystem Services Forum on March 27-31, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia, with work by the Philippines held up as a leading example.

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