{"id":2764,"date":"2009-11-15T12:52:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/economic-benefits-of-protecting-natural-ecosystems.html"},"modified":"2009-11-15T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:52:57","slug":"economic-benefits-of-protecting-natural-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/economic-benefits-of-protecting-natural-ecosystems.html","title":{"rendered":"Economic benefits of protecting natural ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/1519615087\/\" title=\"A longleaf pine on Quarterman Road. by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2219\/1519615087_cc581c73e2_m.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"240\" alt=\"A longleaf pine on Quarterman Road.\" \/><\/a>\nProtecting forests is not just the right thing to do, it&#8217;s good business,\nsays\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/technology\/Protecting%20environment%20worth%20trillions\/2223600\/story.html\">\nMike De Souza, Canwest News Service, November 14, 2009,<\/a> about a recent UN report:\n<blockquote>\nProtecting natural ecosystems and biodiversity is worth trillions of dollars in annual economic benefits around the planet, says a new report released on Friday by the United Nations.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe actual report is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teebweb.org\/InformationMaterial\/TEEBReports\/tabid\/1278\/language\/en-US\/Default.aspx\">TEEB for Policy Makers Report<\/a>\nreleased 13 Nov 2009.\nThe article continues, quoting one of the lead authors of the report:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;The technology of planting trees or replanting forests is thankfully free, and it has no side-effects,&#8221; said Sukhdev, who also leads the UN Environment Program&#8217;s Green Economy Initiative. &#8220;It&#8217;s powerful, it&#8217;s effective and it&#8217;s time tested. We just have to get people&#8217;s mindsets changed to start using these natural technologies that are available.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nOr just don&#8217;t cut down trees when paving roads.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protecting forests is not just the right thing to do, it&#8217;s good business, says Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service, November 14, 2009, about a recent UN report: Protecting natural ecosystems and biodiversity is worth trillions of dollars in annual economic benefits around the planet, says a new report released on Friday by the United [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[216,14,16,21,32],"tags":[2637,8704,8706,8801,5040,5971,5972,155,5973],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal","category-economy","category-environment","category-planning","category-pollution","tag-ecology","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-forestry","tag-forests","tag-sukhdev","tag-teeb","tag-trees","tag-unep"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-IA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}