The Economic Invisibility of Nature
What can You and Your Organisation Do?
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales addresses the A4S Forum 2011
- Practise – Take decisions that recognise our economic dependence on natural and social capital. Work with A4S to develop practical tools and accounting approaches to help build resilient organisations and economies.
- Lead – Play a leadership role and inspire others to take action.
Enter the Finance for the Future Awards to showcase the role that the finance function can play. - Collaborate – Form partnerships between business, finance and government to establish the frameworks needed to tackle the economic invisibility of nature.
Support calls for an integrated reporting framework and common approaches to value natural capital at Rio+20 and beyond.
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Accounting for Sustainability 2011 Forum
Watch our short video which summaries the A4S 2011 Forum:
On Thursday 15th December over 200 representatives from the international accounting and business communities, investors, government, academia and civil society gathered at St James’s Palace State Apartments to hear His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales speak about “the economic invisibility of nature” and consider how the value of the planet’s natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity can be taken into account, fully and consistently, in economic, accounting and decision-making systems.
Prior to the main meeting, participants assembled in roundtables to discuss the following topics:
“The economic invisibility of nature” exploring how business, investors and governments can accelerate work to account for Natural and Social Capital as part of day-to-day decision-making.
“Towards integrated reporting: communicating value in the 21st century” exploring the development of Integrated Reporting and the work of the IIRC.
Click here for Robert Bruce’s insights on the Integrated Reporting roundtable
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Speeches
Speeches at the main meeting were given by:
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
- HRH meets Jeremy Grantham, Jochen Zeitz and David McCandless
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For the video of by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales’s speech click here.
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For the transcript of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales’s speech click here.
Jeremy Grantham, Director, The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment; Co-Founder GMO
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For the video of Jeremy Grantham’s speech click here.
- For Jeremy Grantham’s presentation: Living on a Finite Planet click here.
- For Jeremy Grantham’s 2011 Q2 newsletter which discusses the issues around investment and resource depletion further, click here.
- For access to all the quarterly newsletters prepared by Jeremy Grantham, please log on to the GMO website here.
Jochen Zeitz, CEO Sport and Lifestyle Group, CSO of PPR and Chairman of the Board of PUMA
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For the video of Jochen Zeitz’s speech click here.
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For the transcript of Jochen Zeitz’s speech click here.
David McCandless, Author, Designer and Creative Director, Information is Beautiful.
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For the video of David McCandless click here.
For a list of participants at the A4S 2011 Forum click here.
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Information is Beautiful Images: The Economic Invisibility of Nature
Images designed by Information is Beautiful for The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project to demonstrate the economic invisibility of nature were launched at the event. more
