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How do we bring biodiversity into Natural Capital Accounts?
Biodiversity underpins everything and there is an opportunity and obligation to reflect it in as many ways as possible
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How can we drive investment in natural capital?
Where does the money come from? When we talk about the need to invest in our natural capital, the question of finance always looms large.
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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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What's new at the World Forum on Natural Capital?
Hannah Hamilton, Executive Coordinator at the IFNC, attended the World Forum on Natural Capital last November.
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"Nature underpins a vibrant and thriving human society"
Dr James Murphy, a researcher in the Botany Department, Trinity College, shares insights from an Edinburgh conference on valuing nature
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News: Natural Capital in the Irish Times
Professor Yvonne Buckley, IFNC member and Chair of the Biodiversity Forum, has written an article in the Irish Times explaining how natural
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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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Ireland’s progress in mapping natural capital
Gemma Weir on National Parks and Wildlife Service's pilot study to map some of the potential stocks of Ireland’s ecosystem services.
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Natural capital accounting at the local and landscape scale
What is Corporate Natural Capital Accounting, and how can it help organisations value natural assets at the local and landscape scale?
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Tony Juniper - "Nature is our greatest ally"
Leading author and environmental campaigner Tony Juniper will open our 2016 conference Making Nature Count on Tuesday October 4th 2016
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Corporate "Debt-for-nature" swaps? The time is now!
Deputy Chair of the IFNC, Paul Harris, writes about new legislation and a growing appetite for impact investing
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Accounting for the diversity of natural capital values
Economic values have an important role to play in the management of our natural environment,not a singular one as Dr Craig Bullock writes
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Who values what?
Dr Caitriona Carlin, NUI Galway, outlines the importance of identifying values and attitudes towards ecosystem services and natural capital.
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Calling all candidates! Will you value our natural capital? #GE2016
Irish Forum on Natural Capital call for issue of valuing and preserving nature on the candidates' political agenda for Ireland's General Ele
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Ecological economics and the roots of natural capital
The concept of natural capital owes much of its intellectual history to the field of Ecological Economics, writes Clifford Guest
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Making nature count: indicators for ecosystem services and natural capital
How can we turn natural capital and ecosystem services concepts into a practical policy tool?
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The what, why and how of natural capital finance
Tax incentives are a good way to speed up action for natural capital, writes Paul Harris
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Valuing natural capital - 'beyond GDP'?
Dr. Dorothy Maxwell explores the current trends in natural capital and status of moving “beyond GDP” in reality.
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The EU's new natural capital finance facility
A fund of 100m euro has been made available by the European Commission and European Investment Bank to support natural capital projects
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How much natural capital is in your pint?
How much natural capital is in your pint this St Patrick's Day
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