Ecosystem services Valuation is an assessment of the benefits to humankind from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by natural ecosystems.  The United Nations 2004 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) grouped ecosystem services into 4 broad categories: provisioning, such as the production of food and water (including pharmaceuticals and energy); regulating, such as the control of climate and disease (carbon sequestration and climate regulation, waste decomposition, purification of water and air, etc..); supporting, such as nutrient cycles and crop pollination; and cultural, such as spiritual and recreational benefits (recreational experience like ecotourism, scientific discovery, etc.).

 

Based on an awareness of corporate dependence on ecosystem services and impact on biodiversity, there are a series of risks and opportunities associated with ecosystem services including operational, regulatory and legal, reputational, market, product and financial.

 

Ecosdyn’s experts will build expertise both in companies and investors on evaluating and managing these potential risks and opportunities; stimulate improved environmental economic performance within the private sector by assessing the monetary costs and benefits to human well-being and the well-being of the biosphere as a whole; encourage greater reward for responsible behavior, and mainstream biodiversity and ecosystem services into investment analysis.