Forests don’t only produce wood. Forests produce wild forest products (honey, forest fruits, nuts, mushrooms and more), which make up a part of natural capital, and not only, wild products are often connected to cultural services, like tourism and recreation. Indeed, their increasing popularity mirrors an interest in managing forests for alternative sources of living [...]
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As more than 50% of biodiversity has been lost in 40 years; from 1970– 2010 (WWF Global, 2014, pgs 11 & 14), the need to understand and manage sustainably what is left becomes ever more important. Indeed, calculating the value, the state and the consumption of what remains of these natural resources helps to highlight, [...]
The ECOSTAR Hub is pleased to present three original new reports benchmarking for the first time the size, scope, and scale of ecosystem market mechanisms in Europe for voluntary carbon, watershed investments, and biodiversity offsets and compensation. The reports have been developed by Ecosystem Marketplace and Etifor. Find out more! DOWNLOAD NOW [...]
Natural Capital Accounting First Milk A bottom-up approach to natural capital resource management through cooperation between private entities and a public institute. Available soon Kering One of the first efforts in showing how natural capital accounting and life cycle analysis could create value for a firm. Available soon National Grid [...]
ARE NATURE-BASED BUSINESSES REALLY INNOVATIVE? An assessment of European entrepreneurial initiatives This report presents the results of an assessment of the innovation degree of sixteen nature-based businesses in the European Union. Nature-based businesses are socio-economic initiatives that make profit by marketing, promoting and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT TRAINING [...]
Natural Capital Accounting on resource extraction business / UK COMING SOON This school will focus on innovative business models that add value to natural capital and the ecosystem services. Wild forest product / ITALY COMING SOON This school will focus on innovative business models for the marketing of wild forest products. Forest & carbon [...]
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