Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "NATURAL CAPITAL"
Now showing items 1-15 of 15
-
Accounting for the Inclusive Wealth of Nations: Key Findings of the IWR 2018 - Inclusive Wealth Report 2018: Measuring Sustainability and Well-being Chapter 1
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2019) -
Challenges to Ecosystem Service Valuation for Wealth Accounting - Inclusive Wealth Report 2018: Measuring Sustainability and Well-being Chapter 5
(2019)This chapter will largely focus on SEEA system for ecosystem accounting: the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA) (United Nations et al. 2014b). SEEA EEA has a goal to account for the contribution of ecosystems ... -
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making: An Output of TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
(2011)This book shows how and why existing prices, markets and policies fail to reflect the true value of ecosystem services and biodiversity, and the true cost of ongoing damage. It argues for urgent action and demonstrates the ... -
Environment and Security: Transforming Risks into Cooperation: The Case of the Eastern Caspian Region
(2008)In the past, the notion of security was pri- marily conceived in terms of neutralizing military threats to the territorial integrity and political independence of a state. However, in recent decades, it has been considerably ... -
GEO-6 for Youth Africa: A Wealth of Green Opportunities - Global Environment Outlook
(2019)Africa’s sustainability future is bright. In that future, green jobs abound so much that youth unemployment is dealt a decisive blow. But for this future to materialise, young people, policymakers, private sector players, ... -
A Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication: What are the Implications for Africa?
(2012)How can Africa’s vast natural resources create more wealth for the African people in a more resource-efficient and beneficial manner? What are the pathways to industrial growth which can create greater employment, produce ... -
Inclusive Wealth Report 2012: Measuring Progress Towards Suatainability
(2012)The primary objective of the Inclusive Wealth Report is to provide quantitative information and analysis that present a long-term perspective on human well-being and measures of sustainability. In addition, the main ... -
Inclusive Wealth Report 2018: Measuring Sustainability and Well-being
(2019)In recent years, a number of authors have shown that, if by sustainable development we are to mean that welfare across the generations should not decline over time, the index that measures an economy's productive base ... -
Integrating Natural Capital into Sustainable Development Decision Making in Uganda
(2018)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
More on Natural Health of Nations and Regions - Inclusive Wealth Report 2018: Measuring Sustainability and Well-being Chapter 3
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2019)This chapter focuses on the role and importance of natural capital in measuring the IW of nations. The analysis is based on the same data set used in Chapter 1: a 140-country analysis of IW over 25 years (1990–2014). ... -
Multiple Pathways to Sustainable Development: Further Evidence of Sustainability in Practice
(2016)This report serves to build on that earlier publication by examining four additional approaches that have been adopted at the country or regional level: Circular Economy in the European Union (EU) and Germany, Natural ... -
A New Deal for Nature
(2019)In 2020, world leaders will meet in China to agree on a new set of commitments to conserve nature. They will also review progress towards targets set in 2010; but the news is not all good. Only a quarter of land on Earth ... -
A New Deal for Nature – Account for the True Value of Nature
(2019)Decisions that affect biodiversity have a key economic dimension. Global capital markets – responding to consumers – will determine in large part whether the Sustainable Development Goals will be achieved by 2030. However, ...