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To achieve this, we need to understand the true cost and true value of ecosystems services and make them visible in GDP accounts and companies' balance sheets.
The biggest long-term threat to the GBR today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy is climate change, including rising sea temperatures, accelerating rates of sea level rise, changing weather patterns and ocean acidification.
The draft report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, which described climate change as "the biggest long-term threat to the [reef] today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy".
It has begun advising its suppliers on how to make their products more climate resilient by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving water conservation, and preserving biodiversity and ecosystems services to help improve crop yields.
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In coming decades, "there will be fewer places to graze cattle and cattle grazing lands will be less productive," said Linwood Pendleton, one of the study's lead authors, an ecosystems services specialist at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
Tony Juniper, who was a brilliant leader of Friends of the Earth, has been one of the principal advocates in Britain of the ecosystems services approach (his book What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? was the first popularisation of the idea) and last week he forcefully made the case for it at the New Networks for Nature Conference in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
We were able to advance the Capturing Coral Reef Ecosystems Services Project, by finding sites where the value of ecosystem services of marine protected areas, coral reefs and mangroves can be advanced, and we were able to identify firsthand some key issues in supporting new eco-businesses in the coral triangle.
Ecosystem Services Values (ESVs) are monetary assessment of ecosystems services.
Ecosystems services are threatened by the rapid degradation of tropical rainforests.
