Nature Is Good for Business—and We Now Have Numbers to Show It

Nature is good for business—and we now have numbers to show it

When rivers degrade, pests spread or drought hits crops, nature sends a bill.

Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it

Getty ImagesWhen rivers degrade, pests spread or drought hits crops, nature sends a bill. Yet it’s one rarely itemised on any balance sheet, because nature’s contribution to business remains genuinely hard to quantify. One major obstacle is data. Businesses rarely disclose their precise operating locations, while detailed ecological information that can be linked to specific firms is scarce in most countries. This is despite healthy ecosystems u…