Making Nature Count

Earth’s biodiversity is the ultimate engine of local and global economies compromising renewability our natural resources will ultimately halt economic growth. Despite this, humankind has continued to exploit such as fisheries forests at highly unsustainable rates in pursuit flawed development paradigms simplistic metrics gross domestic product (GDP). This already led loss habitats decline extinction species well consequences an increase zoonotic pandemics. The Economics Biodiversity, a recent report by Sir Partha Dasgupta, addresses how failure current institutions brought us where we stand suggests ways which may reform thought mitigate impacts on biodiversity. identifies important first steps: changing way measure “success”...