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

• DOI: 10.1007/s11625-015-0350-4
• Publication Date: 2015-12-12T00:45:57Z
• Authors: Emma Terama; Ben Milligan; Rafael Jiménez-Aybar; Georgina M. Mace; Paul Ekins
• Keywords: Natural capital accounting (NCA); 330; Sociology and Political Science; 38 Economics; Geography, Planning and Development; ta1172; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 01 natural sciences; Ecosystems; Health(social science); 12. Responsible consumption; 11. Sustainability; Natural capital accounting (NCA) SDGs 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Ecosystems Sustainability Policy Cooperation; anzsrc-for: 44 Human Society; 4407 Policy and Administration; SDGs; 44 Human Society; Nature and Landscape Conservation; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences; Global and Planetary Change; Ecology; anzsrc-for: 4407 Policy and Administration; Cooperation; Policy; Sustainability; anzsrc-for: 38 Economics; 13. Climate action; Note and Comment

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.