TEEB Interim Report

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity – An Interim Report

Title: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity – An Interim Report

Publication date: May 2008

Prepared by: Pavan Sukhdev, Joshua Bishop, Patrick Ten Brink, Haripriya Gundimeda, Katia Karousakis, Pushpam Kumar, Carsten Neßhöver, Aude Neuville, David Skinner, Alexandra Vakrou, Jean-Louis Weber, Stephen White, Heidi Wittmer

Summary: This Interim Report was the first publication in the influential TEEB study. It was released in 2008 at the 9th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD in Bonn. With the Interim report, TEEB study leader Pavan Sukhdev presented a “comprehensive and convincing business model for the conservation of biological diversity”, which acted as a catalyst for the international demand for TEEB’s subsequent reports and Earthscan volumes aimed at international, national, local and regional policy makers and business.

Citation: TEEB (2008) An Interim Report. European Communities.

Languages: I English I French I German I Japanese I Portuguese I Spanish I

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