Simon Zadek: “Pricing Nature into our Economy”

12/05/23 • 28 min

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Dr. Simon Zadek is the Executive Director at NatureFinance, Senior Advisor to the Task Force on Nature Related Financial Disclosure, and co-lead of the Taskforce on Nature Markets. Previously, he was Head, Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals and Senior Advisor on Finance in the office of the UN Secretary-General.

In this episode, we talk about:

Society’s addiction to underpricing nature
How to create equitable nature-positive markets that reward multiple parties including NGOs, governments, local communities, and investors.
The role of biodiversity credits

...and much more!

You can connect with Simon on LinkedIn and check out his work with NatureFinance. The paper mentioned in this episode can be found here.

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In this episode, we talk about:

Society’s addiction to underpricing nature
How to create equitable nature-positive markets that reward multiple parties including NGOs, governments, local communities, and investors.
The role of biodiversity credits

...and much more!

You can connect with Simon on LinkedIn and check out his work with NatureFinance. The paper mentioned in this episode can be found here.

For more from NewAtlantis, visit:

Our Website

Discord

Produced by Peoples Media

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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