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...biodiversity loss, then, be seen as a failure of the market? "Biodiversity is the living capital of the planet," says Pavan Sukhdev, a senior banker with Deutsche Bank and Special Adviser to the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative. Like any capital, he says, it has to be measured to be managed. "If you don't count half of your balance sheet, you're going to get your profit and loss ratio incorrect - and we have...
...TEEB), says that currently "the economic value attached to nature is zero. Our metrics are geared toward consumption and production of man-made goods and services, and we tend to gloss over nature." This, he says, has led to "bad accounting" which, in turn, has contributed to rapid biodiversity loss...
Right now, he explains, there is an expectation of free and open access to nature. However, its use affects everyone. For example, unless an area is specifically regulated, someone can clear-cut a hardwood forest in a developing nation for the timber. But losing that forest also means the loss of habitat for wildlife, other forest products for food and shelter, soil fertility - plus numerous other functions, including climate regulation, which are not yet completely understood. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
Coming off two weeks on the road, Harvard makes its return to the Lavietes Pavilion tonight to face Penn (1-24, 0-11 Ivy). In the last match-up, junior guard and co-captain Christine Matera led the Crimson with 19 points to hand the Quakers a 66-40 loss...
Though the team is likely to earn a spot in the eight-team NCAA tournament even with a loss Friday, the Crimson is still planning to give the ECAC tournament everything...