I spoke with Ethical Compass Management this week about my early life and career, developing canopy walks in the rainforests, working as a zoologist in remote regions of Africa, witnessing the demise of some of our most precious species, my role in…
Last month’s Climate Finance week in Paris was a landmark for natural capitalists. It featured lofty ambitions from the financial sector to divest from coal and strong rhetoric from politicians to drive up green finance, all to the accompaniment of fossil fuel…
ENCORE launched in the Old Paris stock exchange - The Bourse. A new kind of capitalism emerges.
ENCORE - the world’s first comprehensive tool linking environmental change to its consequences for the economy, has been launched by the Natural Capital Finance…
Palm oil is destroying tropical rainforests around the world, is driving the extinction of one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and exacerbating climate change. So what can we do?
People often ask me whether they should try to avoid palm…
Today is World Orangutan Day. A day when we should be celebrating this magnificent ape and our close cousin. It is a sad reflection on humankind that instead, a major Greenpeace campaign got underway this week, not to celebrate orangutans but to…
On a research survey in Nepal, I once stared into the eyes of a wild tiger, whilst dangling from the trunk of an elephant. The great beast had gone into sharp reverse, catapulting me from my observation post on its neck, as…
Brasil is the second largest producer of beef after the US. But its beef, leather and soy are primary commodities leading to land conversion, deforestation, and huge emissions that drive climate change in the region, leading to floods and droughts that disrupt…
A new report released today to mark Earth Day, offers financial institutions a first framework to measure their economic links to natural capital. Though invisible to many banks and asset managers, a portfolio’s impacts and dependencies on stocks and flows from nature…
Imagine if you could buy your favourite Latte and balance the 340g. of its carbon footprint at the time of purchase as easily as swiping your card. Imagine if the cost to you of doing this was minute, so that you started…
The major IPBES report released this week (reviewed below) makes grim reading. There is no way to dress up the unrelenting destruction of nature globally as anything but a disaster. What's changing is that, whilst before most people thought this was primarily…
