For Policymakers

For Policy Makers

RELEASED FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER, 2009

This report demonstrates the value of ecosystems and biodiversity to the economy, to society and to individuals. It underlines the urgency of action, as well as the benefits and opportunities that will arise as a result of taking such action. The report shows that the cost of sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services is lower than the cost of allowing biodiversity and ecosystem services to dwindle. It demonstrates how we can take into account the value of ecosystems and biodiversity in policy decisions and identify and support solutions, new instruments, and wider use of existing tool in order to pioneer a way forward. In so doing, the report addresses the needs of policy-makers and those in the policy-making process.

TEEB for Policy Makers Summary document

The full report:
Part I              The need for action
Chapter 1         The global biodiversity crisis and related policy challenge
Chapter 2         Framework and guiding principles for the policy response

Part II             Measuring what we manage: information tools for decision-makers
Chapter 3         Strengthening indicators and accounting systems for natural capital
Chapter 4         Integrating ecosystem and biodiversity values into policy assessment

Part III Available solutions: instruments for better stewardship of natural capital

Chapter 5 Rewarding benefits through payments and markets

Chapter 6 Reforming subsidies

Chapter 7 Addressing losses through regulation and pricing

Chapter 8 Recognising the value of protected areas

Chapter 9 Investing in ecological infrastructure

Part IV The road ahead
Chapter 10 Responding to the value of nature

To contact the TEEB for Policy Makers co-ordinator, please e-mail Patrick ten Brink, of IEEP, or teeb [at ]ufz.de.

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