4PLANET IMPACT / ISSUE
Environmental costs excluded from decisions
Many economic decisions do not fully reflect losses of ecosystems, biodiversity and other forms of natural value.
Why it matters
Nature has multiple ecological, social, cultural and economic values that cannot be reduced safely to a single universal price.
What the sources establish
The IPBES Values Assessment documents diverse values of nature and shows that decision-making often recognises only a narrow subset of them.
Published action
No project on this issue has passed the IMPACT publication gate yet. That is not evidence that no work exists.
Known and not established
- Do not present one monetary valuation as the complete value of nature or as a neutral substitute for ecological evidence.
- This issue record is source-grounded context, not proof that any particular project, action or intervention is effective.
Sources
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Approaches associated with this problem
No independently reviewed solution comparison is published for this problem.
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