Investing in Nature – Building a Business Case to Save the Planet
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Claims that nature underpins roughly $4 trillion of economic value and supplies 56% buffering of carbon set the scale: current annual investment runs around $120 billion versus an estimated $1 trillion need. Proposals outline putting biophysical stocks on balance sheets via nature‑capital accounts and ecological passports, creating tradable nature assets, and using policy levers — carbon taxes, removing harmful subsidies, tax incentives — alongside public guarantees and scaled bankable products to unlock private finance.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Investing in nature
- 1:45Sixth mass extinction
- 3:10Climate failure without nature
- 4:11Nature funding lags
- 5:56Broken prosperity model
- 7:19Natural capital infrastructure
- 8:22Nature-based economy
- 9:27Nature investment risks
- 11:55Financing biodiversity
- 13:03Biodiversity loss tail risk
- 14:27Investment gaps and development
- 16:57Narrative for nature
- 18:46Challenges to opportunities
- 19:48Agriculture as nature capital
- 21:14Nature’s hidden subsidies
- 22:40Climate policy for nature
- 23:41Nature investment pathways
- 25:07Closing remarks