Natural capital - sustaining economic growth
Alongside global warming, the destruction of the world’s biodiversity and natural capital threatens to undermine economic growth. Another 3 billion people and a world economy some 16 times bigger by 2100 threatens environmental destruction on a scale which would make the twentieth century look positively benign. On current policies, natural capital – those assets nature gives us for free – will be massively depleted and undermine economies. To put growth on a sustainable basis requires that natural assets are taken seriously – in national and corporate accounts, on balance sheets, and by providing compensation for damage, pollution taxes and a nature fund. This lecture sets out how to do this, how to start restoring natural capital, and why it is necessary for sustainable economic growth.

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Date: 10 June 2015, 17:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2015)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Beckit Room
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Organiser contact email address: events@smithschool.ox.ac.uk
Part of: General Talks
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Anne Bowtell, Deborah Strickland