LInking accounts for ecosystem Services and Benefits to the Economy THrough bridging (LISBETH) Part II

Ecosystem Services (ES) are the contribution of ecosystems to human activities i.e., the flows provided by nature to socioeconomic systems. To mainstream nature into decisions that directly affect financial services, could require to group ES differently in order to reflect investor-client kinds of agreements. This report specifically addresses how to group ES to fit the needs (i) for monetary estimates of ES to support, justify and monitor the biodiversity financial gap; (ii) to map ES vulnerabilities that expose economic sectors to risk; (iii) to rank ES values according to a principle of richness that goes beyond GDP.