"In order to judge whether the path of economic development we choose to follow is sustainable, nations need to adopt a system of economic accounts that records an inclusive measure of their wealth. The qualifier ‘inclusive’ says that wealth includes Nature as an asset." Preface of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review.
Breakthrough Energy: Policy Solutions
Five grand challenges: electricity, transportation, manufacturing, buildings and agriculture.
Capitals Coalition - Natural Capital Protocol
Understanding the complex and dynamic relationships that organizations have with the health of natural assets and the ecosystem services they provide enables organizations to make more informed decisions. A capitals approach empowers organizations to deliver benefits to their employees, society, the broader economy and the natural world alongside their businesses.
Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory (EVRI)
Searchable storehouse of empirical studies on the economic value of environmental assets and human health effects.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Promoting attainment of UN SDGs via overlap of ISO standards.
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation / International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) / Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standards
Standards which identify the subset of environmental, social and governance issues most relevant to financial performance and enterprise value for 77 industries.
National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions
A U.S. System of Natural Capital Accounting and Associated Environmental-Economic Statistics.
Principles of Integrated Capitals Assessments
Guidance and consistency in how to apply a capitals approach through integrated thinking, ultimately moving towards a more standardized approach for integrated capitals assessments.
Project Drawdown
Conducts rigorous review and assessment of climate solutions, creating compelling and human communication across mediums, and partnering with efforts to accelerate climate solutions globally.
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)
Framework that integrates economic and environmental data to provide a more comprehensive and multipurpose view of the interrelationships between the economy and the environment and the stocks and changes in stocks of environmental assets.
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Report: Monetary Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Assets for Ecosystem Accounting- Interim Version - 1st Edition
The report is intended to provide a useful starting point with suggestions on valuation methods, examples and references for countries that are undertaking valuation as part of the SEEA EA (Ecosystem Accounting) national implementation. It should not be considered as agreed guidelines on how to compile monetary accounts. Some issues related to valuation are being discussed as part of the SEEA EA research agenda and the SNA (System of National Accounts) revision process. The document will remain under review and updated as country experiences are gained in valuing ecosystem services based on SEEA EA and as consensus emerges.
The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB)
Promotes a structured approach to valuation that helps decision-makers recognize the wide range of benefits provided by ecosystems and biodiversity, demonstrate their values in economic terms, and, where appropriate, capture those values in decision-making.
Transparent: Co-developing Standardized Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation Principles for Businesses
Value Balancing Alliance, the Capitals Coalition and the World Business Council are developing standardized natural capital accounting and valuation principles for business under this EU Life funded project.
UK Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution
Significant public investment and intent to spur private investment - toward energy, buildings, transport, innovation and the natural environment.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - What is it?
Stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human induced) interference with the climate system.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
2006 document to help governments, researchers and others interested in the international climate change negotiations navigate through the complex web of activities undertaken by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP) to advance the implementation of the Convention.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Address poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.
United Nations System of Environmental Economic Accounting
Frequently asked questions.
Value Balancing Alliance
We test new concepts to measure the value of corporate behaviour and business models in real life - to translate environmental and social impacts into comparable financial data.