IDEEA Group works to define the full array of values that flow from natural capital and understand how to manage them as a portfolio
IDEEA Group works with clients and others to adapt and augment existing data and translate organisation-specific goals into key performance metrics that create actionable models for natural capital management. Whether focused on maximising the synergy between social development and fragile ecosystem restoration, balancing water, fire, recreational amenity and habitat management challenges on native parklands, or optimising the long-term productivity of privately owned landholdings, the holistic, spatial and temporal EEA framework provides the proven platform for credible and practical management and reporting solutions. In every case, we demonstrate how improving the health and vitality of natural capital is crucial to increasing the value of all types of ecosystem service flows.
Integrating Natural Capital into Sustainable Development Decision-Making in Uganda
Biodiversity is an essential part of Uganda’s ‘natural capital stock’, allowing the delivery of the ecosystem services that support economic activity and the wellbeing of its people. Since 2015, UNEP-WCMC with IDEEA Group others have worked on a number of projects to facilitate [...]
Forico
Forico is undertaking world-leading research to develop integrated environmental economic accounts that reveal the underlying value of its natural capital. These accounts will provide the first true benchmark of sustainability, from an economic, environmental and social perspective. Extended accounting for [...]
Alliance for Water Stewardship
Demonstrating the practical application of the System of Environmental Economic Accounts in two of China’s industrial parks, the IDEEA Group found great potential for the adoption of environmental-economic accounting while underlining the importance of working with local experts who have [...]
UNEP World Centre for Monitoring Conservation
IDEEA Group has worked with Ugandan Government departments and the UNEP World Centre for Monitoring Conservation to create a clear and credible evidence base to understand the extent of human and economic impact on species biodiversity in Uganda. This is [...]
Natural Capital Coalition
The Natural Capital Protocol (NCP) is a decision making framework that enables organisations to identify, measure and value their direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural capital. SEEA and the approach laid out by the NCP each address the [...]
TEEBAgriFood
The TEEBAgriFood initiative seeks to provide a comprehensive economic evaluation of the “eco-agri-food systems” complex, and demonstrate that the economic environment in which farmers operate is distorted by significant externalities, both negative and positive, and a lack of awareness of [...]