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The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review Training Ecosystems & Corporate Performance

The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review Training Ecosystems & Corporate Performance. World Resources Institute. Legal or regulatory risk. Photo Courtesy of Flickr: Hsivonen. World Resources Institute. Operational opportunity: low-impact industrial processes.

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The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review Training Ecosystems & Corporate Performance

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  1. The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review Training Ecosystems & Corporate Performance World Resources Institute

  2. Legal or regulatory risk Photo Courtesy of Flickr: Hsivonen

  3. World Resources Institute Operational opportunity: low-impact industrial processes

  4. Market opportunity: Markets for ecosystem services Courtesy of Flickr: CittyCat

  5. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework Provisioning Goods or products obtained from ecosystems Regulating Benefits obtained from control of natural processes by ecosystems Cultural Nonmaterial benefits obtained from ecosystems

  6. Status of the world’s ecosystem services Degraded Mixed Enhanced Provisioning Capture fisheries Wild foods Biomass fuel Genetic resources Biochemicals Freshwater Air quality regulation Climate regulation Erosion regulation Water purification Pest regulation Pollination Natural hazard regulation Spiritual values Aesthetic values Timber Fiber Water regulation Disease regulation Recreation & ecotourism Crops Livestock Aquaculture Carbon sequestration Regulating Cultural

  7. NOT EXHAUSTIVE Insurance Comm. real estate Tourism Beverage Forest products Manufacturing Forestry Electric utility Agribusiness Business and ecosystem services are inter-related

  8. Business and ecosystem services are inter-related Ecosystems Business

  9. Deforestation: Santa Cruz, Bolivia

  10. Urban growth in Las Vegas, Nevada • 1973 -A small settlement • 2000 -landscape dramatically modified

  11. Lake Meade, Nevada 2000 2004 PhotoView 18 meters

  12. Newfoundland cod crash

  13. Global coral bleaching Photo credit: Hoegh-Guldberg, et al. Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification, Science 318, 1737 (2007).

  14. www.wri.org/ecosystems/esr

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