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Banks and fund managers have funneled billions of dollars into investments aimed at delivering measurable environmental benefits as much as financial returns. 
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It wasn't just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi Via Garry Rogers
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Costa Rica's great experiment with payments for ecosystem services helped restore millions of hectares of forest and shaped the nation into a laboratory for climate mitigation mechanisms. Costa Rica is now establishing a domestic carbon market with plans to link it to international markets in the future-all as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2021.
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Whale poo could be the secret to reversing the effects of climate change. Via Marian Locksley, PIRatE Lab
PIRatE Lab's insight:
So whales can be seen as an ecosystem service. In this case, a force to sequester carbon. By saving whales from extinction we (in effect) saved this important function which "rockets" carbon from surface waters (such as krill or other plankton) into deeper waters as speed many orders of magnitude greater than the normal settling rate of typical marine snow.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
July 8, 2014 8:13 PM
Its all about trying to transport carbon from the surface down to the sediments down deep in the benthos...although "reversing" climate change is a bit overly optimistic.
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In 2006, Mexico intensified its security strategy, forming an inhospitable environment for drug trafficking organizations (also known as DTOs) within the nation. The drug cartels responded by creating new trade routes along the border of Guatemala and Honduras. Soon shipments of cocaine from South America began to flow through the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MBC). This multi-national swathe of forest, encompassing several national parks and protected areas, was originally created to protect endangered species, such as Baird's Tapir (Tapirus bairdii) and jaguar (Panthera onca), as well as the world's second largest coral reef. Today, its future hinges on the world's drug producers and consumers.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
More drugs = less forest
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Yet instead of applause, voices from across the political spectrum - Berkeley activists and Beltway conservatives, Pope Francis and even some corporate CEOs - offer a critique of economic growth and its harm to the well-being of humans and the...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The efforts to incorporate natural capital into our economic thinking and policy are good, but much of this formal effort (as described by Gretchen in the piece) is very piecemeal and idiosyncratic to date.
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