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GUEST BLOG: Taking full account of how coronavirus connects people to nature

Dr Christine Doherty, Green Infrastructure, Derry & Strabane District Council on natural capital accounts in a time of Coronavirus

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LONGREAD: How Covid-19 and the current impacts we face are linked to the global trade in wildlife

NOELEEN SMYTH PhD, CITES Scientific Authority for Ireland, reflects on Covid-19 and global wildlife trade

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GUEST BLOG: Mobilising Finance for Biodiversity in Ireland

Dr Shane Mc Guinness explains his work on the Biodiversity Finance Ireland project, alongside Dr Craig Bullock

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EU Taxonomy - the classification system for sustainable activities

EU Taxonomy, a classification system for sustainable activities: IFNC Executive Coordinator ORLAITH DELARGY explains what it means

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The INCASE blog: Sustainable development - can Natural Capital Accounting help?

Catherine Farrell presents a series of four INCASE project blogs on the background of the project, highlighting natural capital accounting

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Global Futures report: Inaction on ecological crisis will cost $9.87trillion in GDP by 2050

WWF's Global Futures report predicts inaction on climate and ecological crisis will cost $9.87trillion in GDP by 2050

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The 2020 WEF Global Risks Report shows top 5 global threats are all climate-related

The top long-term global risks are all severe threats to our climate, with “economic confrontations” and “domestic political polarisation”

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Assessment of Biodiversity Measurement for Approaches for Business and Financial Institutions report

The EU Business @ Biodiversity Platform started a critical and constructive assessment of a sample of biodiversity measurement approaches

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Exploring Natural Capital Solutions for our Shared Marine Environment Seminar Presentations

Bord Iascaigh Mhara and the Irish Forum on National Capital recently joined forces on a senior stakeholder breakfast seminar

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Natural Capital, Investment Banking and Biodiversity

PhD student Andrew Neill reflects on his summer placement at the European Investment bank and the Natural Capital Financing Facility

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EU issues new guidance documents on 'working with nature to resolve societal challenges'

THE European Commission has published two guidance documents on working with nature to resolve urgent societal challenges and...

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INCASE ecologist Dr Catherine Farrell on three key Natural Capital Accounting takeaways

INCASE postdoc and ecologist Dr Catherine Farrell has spent the summer reading up on natural capital accounting, here are 3 key insights

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Economics of Biodiversity Review - the call for evidence

An independent global review, the first on biodiversity to be led by a finance-related government department, is open for evidence

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Environmental Economic and Ecosystem Accounting: how can countries/organisations account for nature?

The UN System for Environmental Economic Accounts (SEEA) is helps countries, regions and organisations better account for nature

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Who are the members of the IFNC? Update on the skills, interests and sectors of our 600+ members

Irish Forum on Natural Capital. Here, we break down our diverse membership in terms of their areas of expertise, their key interests and the

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Prof Dieter Helm on 'Economics in the Anthropocene: Can a NatCap Approach prevent Ecological Doom?'

Prof Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy , in Dublin to discuss economics and natural capital in the anthropocene

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Ecosystem Accounting workshop in TCD by Mark Eigenraam, IDEEA Group/Catherine Farrell, BnaM

Leading developer of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) Mark Eigenraam workshop in Dublin

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Natural capital: Making nature pay?

Dr Patrick Bresnihan, Trinity College Dublin, explores the challenges associated with natural capital financing

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The Five Steps to Corporate Natural Capital Accounting

Forest Enterprise England developed the first Corporate Natural Capital Account to inform decision-making

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The role of natural capital in catchment management

This is an excerpt from a paper given by Donal Daly, of the Catchments Unit at the EPA, in Tullamore in 2017

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