Ireland’s environment is a priceless asset that we all depend on for food, water, air, energy, inspiration, beauty and wonder. 

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We all impact on it, too: our way of life is the major driver of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water, soil and air pollution.

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Integrated, evidence-based solutions are urgently needed to inform policy and support decision-making that recognises nature’s limits and enables us to live within them.

 

Natural Capital Accounting is one such potential solution. A new approach, it seeks to connect ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people with the beneficiaries, using methods familiar to statistics and economics.

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Our project, INCASE, combines the skills of natural scientists, economists and statisticians to account for nature's benefits to people so that we can take stock of what we have in a way that helps everyone to better understand nature's importance, and to manage it in a more sustainable way.