Biodiversity on the balance sheet

15 July 2010

Biodiversity on the balance sheet

Source: Climate Spectator
Author: Giles Parkinson

Here's a new acronym for all you accounting types - BES (biodiversity and ecosystems). Please take note, board members too, because it's about to become an entry on your company's balance sheet.

At least that's the ambition of a G8-sponsored project called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, made under the umbrella of the UN's Green Economy initiative, which says that the unchecked loss of biodiversity is a greater and more immediate risk to our economies than climate change, and it wants business to do something about it.

Read the full story online at the Climate Spectator.

Of course, here at Greenfleet we think both biodiversity and climate change are important and we are tackling them together.  Read more about biodiversity and climate change.