---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Costanza <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:19 PM Subject: The future value of ecosystem services To: Solutions <[email protected]> Hi all. We’d like to call your attention to a new paper that estimates the future value of global ecosystem services under four scenarios to the year 2050. Results show that the global value of ecosystem services can either decrease by USD $51 trillion/yr or increase by USD $30 trillion/yr, depending on which scenario we choose. The latter scenario adopts policies similar to those required to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which would greatly enhance ecosystem services, human wellbeing, and sustainability. The abstract is below and you can download the full paper here: http://www.idakub.com/academics/wp-content/uploads/ 2017/02/2017_J_Kubiszewski_ESscenarios.pdf All the best, Robert Costanza & Ida Kubiszewski *Abstract* We estimated the future value of ecosystem services in monetary units for 4 alternative global land use and management scenarios based on the Great Transition Initiative (GTI) scenarios to the year 2050. We used previous estimates of the per biome values of ecosystem services in 2011 as the basis for comparison. We mapped projected land-use for 16 biomes at 1 km2 resolution globally for each scenario. This, combined with differences in land management for each scenario, created estimates of global ecosystem services values that also allowed for examinations of individual countries. Results show that under different scenarios the global value of ecosystem services can decline by $51 trillion/yr or increase by USD $30 trillion/yr. In addition to the global values, we report totals for all countries and maps for a few example countries. Results show that adopting a set of policies similar to those required to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, would greatly enhance ecosystem services, human wellbeing, and sustainability. *Prof. Robert Costanza** | *VC's Chair in Public Policy | Crawford School of Public Policy | The Australian National University | 132 Lennox Crossing | Canberra, ACT 2601 | Australia | URL: https://crawford.anu.edu. au/people/academic/robert-costanza <https://crawford.anu.edu.au/crawford_people/content/staff/rcostanza.php> | Office: +61 (0)2 6125 6987 Mobile: +61 (0)47 801 2393 Website: www.robertcostanza.com, Google Scholar <http://cholar.google.com.sg/citations?hl=en&user=EQ-mkaAAAAAJ>, Research Gate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Costanza>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005761060&origin=AuthorEval> *Co-Editor in Chief, **Solutions* (www.thesolutionsjournal.com <http://www.thesolutionsjournal.org/>) | Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (RSA) | Fellow, Asia and the Pacific Policy Society | Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm, Sweden | Senior Fellow, National Council on Science and the Environment, Washington, DC. | Affiliate Fellow, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont | Co-chair, Ecosystem Services Partnership (es-partnership.org) | deTao Master of Ecological Economics, deTao Masters Academy, Shanghai, China _______________________________________________ <a href="%(user_optionsurl)s?password=%(user_password)s& unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1"> Click here to unsubscribe. </a> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/