The Economic Value of Biodiversity

To Protect the Global Natural Environment and Ecosystems
we need to socially and economically Value Biodiversity

Governments and Private Capital need to invest in
conservation & restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity,
along with protecting the Earth's most valued species.

Any biodiverse ecosystem that is important
to the overall environmental health and well-being
should be regarded as a Public Natural Resource

Any losses or damages to an ecosystem resource or area of biodiversity, or any needed cleanup or restoration work due to those damages, should be treated as a liability claim and should be legally compensated to the public
or the community, through penalty fines or compensation taxes or resource-use payments.

To Protect the Economic Value of Biodiversity
governments will need to put into law
tax-incentives, tax-penalties and fines,
in order to shift towards an Eco-sustainable Economics

Economic Liability for any Biodiversity Losses

The environmental incurred cost needs to be paid for by those companies or people that do this harming or depleting. In other words, the losses incurred on any public commons or resources are owed back to the public by that company or person who produced the loss.

This natural payback to the Public, for these incurred liabilities, can be collected as a penalty for any public loss of biodiversity, with a court-supervised department deciding the quantified loss of public property, to be paid as a public-owed liability by the company or person that caused it.

A second way to collect this environmental liability is to legislate a 'resource-depletion tax', similar to a pollution or climate tax. A third way to protect our nature's biodiversity is to protect it with strict laws and imposed fines against harm or depletion.

Biodiversity is a necessary Life-system process,
needed for the sustainable functioning of Earth ecosystems.

As such, biodiversity must be protected against flagrant abuse or depletion, in order for humanity to stay within the ecological boundaries of Earth Life.

Therefore, a truly 'sustainable economics' needs to
protect and value a 'sustainable natural ecosystem',
with biodiversity as one its core measurable resources and values.

Government Public-Social Policy needs to:

• fund public projects for protecting and restoring sustainable terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably managed forests.
• protect against the degradation of biodiversity, the degradation of the lands, the soils, the forests, and the seas.
• mitigate climate-change, desertification, and the destruction of ecosystems by natural disasters.
• sustainably manage terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, such as forests, planes, deserts, freshwaters, wetlands, coastlines, reefs and ocean bottoms.
• tax-incentivize private capital to invest in enterprises and projects for the good of the Public Commons and for the good of our Common Future, helping to reduce climate-change and to reverse depletion of our Global Bioresources.

  Major Values of Biodiversity

  • Environmental Value
  • Social Value
  • Nutritional & Medicinal Value
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Economic Value
  • Consumptive use value
  • Productive Use Value
  • Ethical and Moral Value
  • Aesthetic Value
  Learn more about Biodiversity

  
  Understanding Biodiversity

  • Video about Biodiversity
  • Overview on Biodiversity
  • Biodiversity & its components
  • Conservation of Biodiversity
  • Why is biodiversity important?
  • Facts about Biodiversity
  • Major Threats to Biodiversity
  • What is the Biodiversity Crisis?
  • Biodiversity – UN Environment
  • Biodiversity & Agriculture
  • More Info-links on Biodiversity

  
  The Value of Biodiversity

  • 8 Values of Biodiversity
  • Economic Worth of Biodiversity
  • Biodiversity needs a Dollar Value

  
  The Global 30x30 Plan
  (to conserve 30% of Earth's land & seas)

  • Support for the 30x30 Plan
  • 30x30 Plan from NRDC.org
  • Indigenous concerns about 30x30

  Nature-based Solutions:

  Nature-based solutions are actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems, which address societal challenges (e.g. climate change, food and water security or natural disasters) effectively and adaptively, while simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits.

  Nature-based solutions are based on the belief that when ecosystems are healthy and well-managed, they provide essential benefits and services to people, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, securing safe water resources, making air safer to breathe, or providing increased food security.

  Nature-based solutions rely on nature and the power of healthy ecosystems to protect people, optimise infrastructure, and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future.

  Nature-based solutions involve protecting, restoring, and sustainably managing ecosystems in ways that increase their resiliency and ability to address those societal challenges, while also safeguarding biodiversity and improving human wellbeing. This encompass a wide range of approaches – such as the restoration of habitats, ecosystems and landscapes, water and forest resource management, disaster risk reduction, and green infrastructure.

  Nature-based solutions address humanity's global challenges of: climate-change, food and water security, health, disaster risk, economic survival, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss.
  
  

  

  
  see... Nature-based Solutions explained

  also... Nature-regenerative Solutions

  
  
  

  * 4 Cornerstones of Nature-based Solutions *

  Protection

  Restoration

  Management

  Sustainable-use

  – of the Earth's life-sustaining and biodiverse ecosystems –

  oceans, reefs, and coastal areas,
  lakes, rivers, and wetlands,
  forests, mountains, plains, and deserts
  
  

  Rural and Urban Policies:

  • protected corridors for rivers to naturally flow
  • ecology-based agriculture and landscape protection
  • regional land conservation and wildlife refuges
  • urban and community landscapes with more green
    and blue public spaces, nature paths and corridors,
    community trees, waters, and botanical gardens.
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

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