Accounting for the environment as an economic asset: global progress and realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Emma Terama; Ben Milligan; Rafael Jiménez-Aybar; Georgina M Mace; Paul Ekins

doi:10.1007/s11625-015-0350-4

Accounting for the environment as an economic asset: global progress and realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Sustain Sci. 2016;11(6):945-950. doi: 10.1007/s11625-015-0350-4. Epub 2015 Dec 12.

Authors

Emma Terama^{1

2}, Ben Milligan^{1

3}, Rafael Jiménez-Aybar⁴, Georgina M Mace⁵, Paul Ekins¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H0NN UK.
² Climate Change Programme, Finnish Environment Institute, 00251 Helsinki, Finland.
³ Centre for Law and Environment, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT UK.
⁴ GLOBE International, 1150 Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT UK.

Abstract

National and international efforts to develop natural capital accounts are proliferating. The newly agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development echoes these efforts. Continued cooperation is needed to overcome key scientific and policy challenges.

Keywords: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Cooperation; Ecosystems; Natural capital accounting (NCA); Policy; SDGs; Sustainability.