'Natural Capital – Valuing the Planet' by Prof Dieter Helm CBE, University of Oxford
Date: 10 Dec 2015
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Location: Roberts G08 Sir David Davies LT, Malet Place, London, WC1E 7JE
Alongside global warming, the destruction of the world’s biodiversity and natural capital threatens to undermine economic growth. Another 3 billion people and a world economy some 16 times bigger by 2100 threatens environmental destruction on a scale which would make the twentieth century look positively benign. On current policies, natural capital - those assets nature gives us for free - will be massively depleted and undermine economies. To put growth on a sustainable basis requires that natural assets are taken seriously - in national and corporate accounts, on balance sheets, and by providing compensation for damage, pollution taxes and a nature fund. This lecture sets out how to do this, how to start restoring natural capital, and why it is necessary for sustainable economic growth.
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