Damage to environment could wipe £368bn a year from growth by 2050 and UK will be hard hit, WWF warns

Climate-related risks overshadow all other risks – in particular economic risks – undermining cohesive action and creating blind spots. Society needs a new “growth paradigm” that addresses the interconnectedness of socio-economic factors with climate change. Businesses need to adapt their metrics to assess the value of nature.

Representatives from 18 African countries committed to create a new Community of Practice on Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) in Africa. 

Forests are climate-negative technology at scale. So investments in tropical forests should be investment-ready, and fund managers able to tap the opportunity should be rolling in capital. 

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are holding their annual meetings this week, Oct. 14-20, in Washington, D.C. Amid the discussions around jobs, poverty reduction and value chains, one of the talks will center on a seemingly unusual topic for the bankers, economists and finance ministers in attendance: biodiversity.

Earth Overshoot Day falls on earliest-ever date in 2019, as humans use far more natural resources than is sustainable.

Plants, animals and micro-organisms crucial to indirectly upholding the human diet are dying out, study shows

This long-term failure to incorporate nature into decision-making had led to over exploitation of the natural environment and under investment in maintaining biodiversity, she told the first ever National Biodiversity Conference, which is being staged at Dublin Castle.