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WAVES/GPS Newsletter, Issue 54, May 2020
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| Loktak Lake landscape in Imphal, Manipur, India. Photo credit: Shikha A/Shutterstock |
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Dear colleagues,
Together, we are facing a truly unprecedented situation. The global coronavirus pandemic is affecting all of us - our work, our communities and entire economies. We hope you and your families are staying safe and healthy.
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores strong links between human and planetary health, making the valuation of natural capital and ecosystem services more important than ever. In the Global Program on Sustainability we are looking at ways in which we can contribute to address the challenge.
The WAVES Team
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Over the last century, our species has increasingly dominated the earth, expanding, developing, growing ... but also polluting and depleting our non-renewable resources, creating irreversible losses in biodiversity.
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What matters today is how we flatten the curve. What will matter tomorrow is how we stimulate economic recovery and ensure that economies are green, clean, and resilient. We can't do this without thinking about how to put natural capital to work for its people.
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A regional learning and knowledge platform that brings together professionals from governments institutions, nongovernmental organizations and academia that are interested in or working on NCA in Africa. Set to be launched at the
African Forum on Green Economy.
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A new report,
Sustainable Investment: Best Practice Disclosure Checklist for Pension Funds, part of our work embedding sustainability practices into institutional investor practices, provides a checklist of the disclosures that asset owners' stakeholders might need.
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As countries rebuild their shattered economies, there is an opportunity to build back better and live in a more sustainable, "greener" way. The stimulus packages that will be rolled out by governments and development institutions should boost the economy, support people and communities while also resulting in good environmental outcomes.
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Karin Erika Kemper, Global Director for the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice at the World Bank
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New in the Knowledge Center
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The Natural Capital Impact Group & University of Cambridge
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WWF, Global Trade Analysis Project, and Natural Capital Project
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Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice
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Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice
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News from our Partners
The Scottish natural capital ecosystem service accounts, highlighting the relative importance of services provided by Scottish natural assets. Natural capital refers to physical and natural resources and the benefits these provide.
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Natural capital accounts containing information on ecosystem services for woodlands in the UK.
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The IBGE, together with the Ministry of the Environment and the National Water Agency put out the first results of the Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water - CEAA, for the 2013-2017 period.
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IUCN brought together a group of leading experts - with finance, conservation and engineering backgrounds - to explore how infrastructure finance and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can work hand in hand to make infrastructure investments better, more durable, and financially more attractive.
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This n
ewsletter
is published by the GPS/WAVES Communications Team. We welcome your submissions of news, events and publications at wavespartnership@worldbank.org
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