Investing in nature is crucial for reducing poverty and inequality and preserving the critical ecosystems that support livelihoods and a stable climate.
The 2022 Forum focused on financing for nature with discussion on the role natural capital, ecosystem services data and analytics play in investment and policy decisions.
The report uses innovative economic modelling techniques to estimate how changes in select ecosystem services impact the economy, helping decision-makers understand the cost of inaction.
The Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) promotes the use of high-quality data and analysis on natural capital, ecosystem services, and sustainability to better inform decisions made by governments, the private sector, and financial institutions.
Faced with growing threats to biodiversity and the natural systems that are crucial to all economies, conservation efforts that merely stop nature loss are no longer enough.