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The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review
Training
Ecosystems & Corporate Performance
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Legal or regulatory risk
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Operational opportunity: low-impact industrial processes
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Market opportunity: Markets for ecosystem services
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework
Provisioning
Regulating
Cultural
Goods or products obtained from
ecosystems
Benefits obtained from control of
natural processes by ecosystems
Nonmaterial benefits obtained from
ecosystems
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Status of the world’s ecosystem services
Degraded
Mixed
Provisioning
Capture fisheries
Wild foods
Biomass fuel
Genetic resources
Biochemicals
Freshwater
Timber
Fiber
Crops
Livestock
Aquaculture
Regulating
Air quality regulation
Climate regulation
Erosion regulation
Water purification
Pest regulation
Pollination
Natural hazard regulation
Water regulation
Disease regulation
Carbon sequestration
Spiritual values
Aesthetic values
Recreation & ecotourism
Cultural
Enhanced
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Business and ecosystem services are inter-related
NOT EXHAUSTIVE
Degraded
Mixed
Enhanced
Provisioning
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Capture fisheries
Wild foods
Biomass fuel
Genetic resources
Biochemicals, natural medicines,
& pharmaceuticals
• Fresh water
• Timber and other wood fiber
• Other fiber (e.g., cotton,
hemp, silk)
Beverage
Forest products
Manufacturing
• Crops
• Livestock
• Aquaculture
Regulating
• Air quality regulation
• Regional & local climate
regulation
• Erosion regulation
• Water purification & waste
treatment
• Pest regulation
• Pollination
• Natural hazard regulation
• Water regulation
• Disease regulation
• Carbon sequestration
• Ethical values (spiritual, religious)
• Aesthetic values
• Recreation & ecotourism
Cultural
Electric utility
Insurance
Agribusiness
Comm. real estate
Tourism
Forestry
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Business and ecosystem services are inter-related
Ecosystems
Business
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Deforestation: Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Urban growth in Las Vegas, Nevada
•1973 -A small settlement
•2000 -landscape
dramatically modified
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Lake Meade, Nevada
2000
2004
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18 meters
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Newfoundland cod crash
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Global coral bleaching
Photo credit: Hoegh-Guldberg, et al. Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification,
Science 318, 1737 (2007).
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www.wri.org/ecosystems/esr
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