Pavan Sukhdev : Put a value on nature!
Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev as nature’s banker — assessing the value of the Earth’s assets. Eye-opening charts will make you think differently about the cost of air, water, trees ..
About the author
Pavan Sukhdev is Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a specialist consulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and human capital. He is a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, where he was awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship and wrote his book “Corporation 2020”. Earlier, he was Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative, and lead author of their report “Towards a Green Economy”. He was also Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned project on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (“TEEB”). Pavan was appointed to lead TEEB by the EU Commission and Germany, and delivered its “Interim Report” whilst still working full time at Deutsche Bank in 2008. A career banker, Pavan then took a sabbatical from the Bank to lead TEEB & the Green Economy Initiative for UNEP. While at Deutsche Bank, Pavan had founded (2006) and then chaired Global Markets Centre – Mumbai, a leading-edge front-office offshoring company. Pavan was a speaker at the World Economic Forum meetings at Davos in 2010 and 2011. He serves on the boards of Conservation International and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
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- Will 2013 bring a new, sustainable world?
- Biodiversity COP-11 : View from a Distance
- Out of Africa : The “Gaborone Declaration” and its Implications for Rio+20
- Thoughts from a Beach : The Private Sector and Rio+20
- Pavan Sukhdev : Put a value on nature!
- Debating the Value of Nature in ‘The Economist’
- What is Quality of Life? My answer to the World Policy Journal’s “Big Question”
- “The Amazon : Two Rivers and Two Economies”
- “Your Invoice” – Another perspective on why nature is so precious
- “Little things” communicates why nature is so precious and wins the Mofilm/TEEB competition
- Pavan Sukhdev addresses the London School of Economics: Ending the Economic Invisibility of Nature
- “To make poverty history, make Nature the future”
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