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SUMMARY:Building Back Better: Natural Capital Accounting for a Green Recov
 ery - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20201215T143000Z
DTEND:20201215T153000Z
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:*Top global experts discuss why it’s time to move beyond GDP
  and value nature for its worth.*\n\nAround the world\, economic statistic
 s tell a story of 100 years of progress. But they conceal a parallel story
  of mounting environmental pressures – climate change\, pollution\, and 
 biodiversity loss – that undermine it. By omitting one of humanity’s g
 reatest assets – nature – these statistics ultimately slow progress to
 wards a sustainable\, resilient future.\n\nAs economies begin their recove
 ry from the COVID-19 pandemic\, we need to build back better by moving bey
 ond GDP towards a system that recognizes all of society’s assets – nat
 ural\, human\, social\, and institutional\, harnesses their interdependenc
 ies\, and delivers the 2030 Agenda.\n\nThis webinar\, co-hosted by the Ben
 nett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and the Un
 ited Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs\, brings together w
 orld-leading experts to discuss how natural capital accounting can help in
  the fight against climate change\, biodiversity loss\, and air pollution 
 (responsible for over seven million deaths a year).\n\nPanelists will disc
 uss the economic rationale for placing nature at the heart of the recovery
  from COVID-19\, highlighting a global UN-led effort to develop new statis
 tics that reveal\, rather than conceal\, the impacts and dependencies of e
 conomies on nature. The resulting System of Environmental Economic Account
 s - Ecosystem Accounting is expected to be adopted by the United Nations S
 tatistical Commission in 2021\, providing high-quality\, rigorous data on 
 biodiversity\, ecosystems and the environment-economy nexus.\n\nBook your 
 place: "bit.ly/MakeNatureCount":bit.ly/MakeNatureCount\n\nConfirmed speake
 rs include:\n\n* *Norbert Barthle*\, Parliamentary State Secretary to the 
 Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development\, Germany\n\n* *
 Dr. Monica Contestabile*\, Editor in Chief\, Nature Sustainability\, as mo
 derator of the event.\n\n* *Professor Diane Coyle*\, Bennett Professor of 
 Public Policy and Co-Director\, Bennett Institute for Public Policy\, Univ
 ersity of Cambridge\n\n* *Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta*\, Frank Ramsey Pr
 ofessor Emeritus of Economics\, University of Cambridge\n\n* *Elliott Harr
 is*\, United Nations Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General\, Uni
 ted Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs\n\n* *Bert Kroese*\,
  Deputy Director General\, Statistics Netherlands and Chair of the United 
 Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting\n\nAtten
 dees will gain a ‘first look’ into a series of landmark reports being 
 launched for the webinar\, and in the weeks to follow. These include:\n\n*
  "How Natural Capital Accounting Contributes to Integrated Policies for Su
 stainability":https://seea.un.org/content/enhanca-enhance-natural-capital-
 accounting-policy-uptake-and-relevance and "associated reports":https://se
 ea.un.org/content/enhanca-enhance-natural-capital-accounting-policy-uptake
 -and-relevance (United Nations\, 2020)\n\n* "Building Forward: Investments
  in a Resilient Recovery":https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publicati
 ons/building-forward-investing-resilient-recovery/ (Agarwala\, et al 2020)
 \n\n* "The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity":https://www.g
 ov.uk/government/publications/interim-report-the-dasgupta-review-independe
 nt-review-on-the-economics-of-biodiversity (HM Treasury\, 2020)\n\nBook yo
 ur place: "bit.ly/MakeNatureCount":bit.ly/MakeNatureCount\n\n
LOCATION:Online Event on Zoom
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