{"id":263,"date":"2007-10-17T18:03:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-11-12T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T18:10:45","slug":"markets-for-ecosystem-services-by-wbcsd-and-iucn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/markets-for-ecosystem-services-by-wbcsd-and-iucn\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets for Ecosystem Services by WBCSD and IUCN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/\" target=\"_parent\">World Business Council for Sustainable Development<\/a>\u00a0 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucn.org\/\" target=\"_parent\">The World Conservation Union<\/a>\u00a0 has just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/includes\/getTarget.asp?type=d&amp;id=MjY2ODQ\" target=\"_blank\">Markets for Ecosystem Services \u2013 New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment<\/a> (1.3 MB).\u00a0 The report shows how at a fundamental level, all economies and businesses depend directly or indirectly on the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable supply of ecosystem services.\u00a0 Environmentalists have long argued that conserving ecosystems and sustaining the services they provide is a pre-requisite for prosperity; business, governments and society are catching up.\u00a0 The report intends to help establish a shared vision of market-based approaches to nature conservation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The report is timely given the recent reports of mammalian extinction threats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/includes\/getTarget.asp?type=d&amp;id=MjY2ODQ\" target=\"_blank\" align=\"left\">Markets for Ecosystem Services \u2013 New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment<\/a> (1.3 MB)\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wbcsd.org\/web\/projects\/ecosystems\/markets4ecoystemsPPT.ppt\" target=\"_blank\">PowerPoint Presentation<\/a> (1.5 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Business Council for Sustainable Development\u00a0 and The World Conservation Union\u00a0 has just published Markets for Ecosystem Services \u2013 New Challenges and Opportunities for Business and the Environment (1.3 MB).\u00a0 The report shows how at a fundamental level, all economies and businesses depend directly or indirectly on the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/markets-for-ecosystem-services-by-wbcsd-and-iucn\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Markets for Ecosystem Services by WBCSD and IUCN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}