{"id":3089,"date":"2008-10-10T03:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T03:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2008-10-10T03:23:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T03:23:20","slug":"financial-impact-from-deforestation-dwarfs-failing-banks-says-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/financial-impact-from-deforestation-dwarfs-failing-banks-says-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Impact From Deforestation "Dwarfs" Failing Banks Says New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world’s economy is suffering more from the loss of forests than from the current crisis on Wall Street<\/a>, according to a new EU-commissioned study.<\/h3>\n

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The study says that the cost of deforestation<\/a> annually is between $2 and $5 trillion dollars.\u00a0 These numbers were arrived at after researchers put value on, and then added together,\u00a0 the many ways in which forests “work” for us, including absorbing CO2 from the air, and providing potable water.<\/p>\n

The idea behind the study is that as forests disappear, the natural world no longer provides services which it used to provide for free.<\/p>\n

So, the human economic system must step in and find a way to provide these same services, for example\u00a0 through building reservoirs or building infrastructure to catch carbon dioxide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Whereas Wall Street by various calculations has to date lost, within the financial sector, $1-$1.5 trillion, the reality is that at today’s rate we are losing natural capital at least between $2-$5 trillion every year,” Pavan Sukhdev<\/a>, who led the study, told the BBC.<\/p>\n

The review is called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Teeb)<\/a>, and was initiated by Germany, although the European Commission provided the funding.<\/p>\n

The study has been a major topic of discussion at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN<\/a>) conference currently being held in Barcelona.\u00a0 There are conservationists who hope that data presented in this way will persuade lawmakers to put effort and funds towards the conservation of nature.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0 BBC<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo:\u00a0 Flickr under a Creative Commons License<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The world’s economy is suffering more from the loss of forests than from the current crisis on Wall Street, according to a new EU-commissioned study.   The study says that the cost of deforestation annually is between $2 and $5 trillion dollars.\u00a0 These numbers were arrived at after researchers put value on, and then 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