Putting a value on nature: Influencing global action on environmental challenges
Even as we seek to overcome the global pandemic, humanity faces three planetary crisis that threaten our future – the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, and the pollution and waste crisis – driven by decades of relentless and unsustainable consumption and production.

Ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity, in conversation with Professor Cameron Hepburn, Inger Andersen, the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme speaks to the implications of the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity, and how we can begin the journey to re-shape our economies, working with nature, not against it. In an important year for multilateral governance for the environment,

Ms Andersen will address how the Report’s findings can influence the finalisation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, and open up financing for nature-based solutions, which must feature extensively in the updated and stretched Nationally Determined Contributions, to be submitted ahead of COP26 in Glasgow later this year. And finally, in this pivotal year, with countries making unprecedented investments to kick-start economies, and protect livelihoods, how can we use the Review’s findings to inform global efforts to “recover better” from the pandemic?

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Date: 20 May 2021, 17:00
Venue: Online
Speakers: Inger Andersen (Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme), Prof Cameron Hepburn (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
Organising department: Oxford Martin School
Organiser contact email address: events@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/putting-a-value-on_nature
Audience: Public
Editor: Hannah Mitchell