Showing posts with label pricing-nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pricing-nature. Show all posts

Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

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Matt McGrath BBC 25 Oct 18; As well as rapidly reducing the carbon dioxide that we humans are pumping into the atmosphere in huge amounts...

Cost of climate-linked disasters soars: UN

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AFP Yahoo News 10 Oct 18; Geneva (AFP) - The economic cost of climate-related disasters hit $2.25 trillion over the last two decades, an ...

Project aims to quantify worth of forests and marine habitats

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Siau Ming En Today Online 16 Aug 18; SINGAPORE — How much are Singapore's forests, parks, waterways, and coastal and marine habitats ...

Flood damage would double without coral reefs: study

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Marlowe HOOD, AFP Yahoo News 13 Jun 18; Paris (AFP) - Loss of coral reefs around the world would double the damage from coastal flooding,...

Green the colour of money where property is concerned?

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Rachel Au-Yong Straits Times 20 Apr 18; Live near a park or trees blooming with flowers? Your HDB flat might fetch up to 3 per cent more,...

Restoring marshes, oyster reefs could save $50 billion: study

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AFP Yahoo News 12 Apr 18; Tampa (AFP) - Restoring oyster reefs and marshes could save the US Gulf Coast region $50 billion in flood damag...

Land decay to displace tens of millions, global survey warns

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Mariëtte Le Roux AFP Yahoo News 27 Mar 18; Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) - Land degradation will unleash a mass migration of at least 50 mill...

Destruction of nature as dangerous as climate change, scientists warn

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Unsustainable exploitation of the natural world threatens food and water security of billions of people, major UN-backed biodiversity study ...

Indonesia: Researchers Should Also Consider Economic Value from Peat Restoration

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Netral News 8 Dec 17; JAKARTA, NNC - The Peat Restoration Agency (BRG) expects peat researchers to assess the economic value of peat rest...

When solar power comes at a cost to nature areas

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Other environmental objectives need to be considered in efforts to meet national targets Tilak Doshi and Euston Quah For The Straits Times ...

Great Barrier Reef a $42 billion asset 'too big to fail': study

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Martin PARRY AFP Yahoo News 26 Jun 17; Sydney (AFP) - Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion ...

Malaysia: Generating revenue without felling trees

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The Star 1 May 16; KOTA KINABALU: The forests in Sabah are set to become a key revenue earner for the state without any tree being felled...

Economic losses from natural disasters counted

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Jonathan Amos BBC 19 Apr 16; Natural disasters around the globe have resulted in economic losses of roughly $7 trillion since 1900, accor...

UN Report Makes Economic Case for Conservation of Indonesia’s Forests

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Daniel Waldroop Jakarta Globe 9 Jul 15; Jakarta. The United Nations Office for REDD+ Coordination in Indonesia, or UNORCID, published a n...

Look beyond market value in preserving green spaces

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Euston Quah Nicolas Neo The Straits Times AsiaOne 17 Jun 15; Singapore's founding fathers took a pragmatic approach that focused on e...