Over 25 ministers and vice-ministers of finance, development and environment attended the Dialogue – which convened the `first-movers’ of Natural Capital Accounting (NCA). This is a group of more than 60 countries committed to supporting NCA to move beyond GDP as the main measure of an economy’s progress.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Recognizing Economic Value of Natural Assets
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/04/18/call-to-action-on-recognizing-the-true-value-of-nature
More and more countries are putting natural assets like clean water, forests
and other ecosystems into the center of their economic decision-making, a
High-level Ministerial Dialogue on Natural Capital Accounting, on the eve of
the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings, heard today.
Over 25 ministers and vice-ministers of finance, development and environment attended the Dialogue – which convened the `first-movers’ of Natural Capital Accounting (NCA). This is a group of more than 60 countries committed to supporting NCA to move beyond GDP as the main measure of an economy’s progress.
Over 25 ministers and vice-ministers of finance, development and environment attended the Dialogue – which convened the `first-movers’ of Natural Capital Accounting (NCA). This is a group of more than 60 countries committed to supporting NCA to move beyond GDP as the main measure of an economy’s progress.
