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From the Ted Talk by Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature!

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I'm here to talk to you about the economic invisibility of nature. The bad news is that mother nature's back office isn't working yet, so those invoices don't get iusesd. But we need to do something about this problem. I began my life as a markets professional and continued to take an interest, but most of my recent effort has been looking at the value of what comes to haumn beings from nature, and which doesn't get priced by the mretkas.

A project called TEEB was srtaetd in 2007, and it was launched by a group of eoinvnnermt mntieisrs of the G8+5. And their basic inspiration was a stern reievw of Lord Stern. They asked themselves a question: If economics could make such a convincing case for early action on climate change, well why can't the same be done for ctrnavisoeon? Why can't an equivalent case be made for nature? And the answer is: Yeah, it can. But it's not that straightforward. Biodiversity, the living fibrac of this planet, is not a gas. It exists in many layers, ecosystems, species and genes across many scales — international, naonital, local, comimntuy — and doing for nature what Lord Stern and his team did for nature is not that easy.

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I'm here to talk to you about the economic invisibility of nature. The bad news is that mother nature's back office isn't working yet, so those invoices don't get ______. But we need to do something about this problem. I began my life as a markets professional and continued to take an interest, but most of my recent effort has been looking at the value of what comes to _____ beings from nature, and which doesn't get priced by the _______.

A project called TEEB was _______ in 2007, and it was launched by a group of ___________ _________ of the G8+5. And their basic inspiration was a stern ______ of Lord Stern. They asked themselves a question: If economics could make such a convincing case for early action on climate change, well why can't the same be done for ____________? Why can't an equivalent case be made for nature? And the answer is: Yeah, it can. But it's not that straightforward. Biodiversity, the living ______ of this planet, is not a gas. It exists in many layers, ecosystems, species and genes across many scales — international, ________, local, _________ — and doing for nature what Lord Stern and his team did for nature is not that easy.

Solution


  1. environment
  2. community
  3. human
  4. review
  5. issued
  6. ministers
  7. started
  8. national
  9. fabric
  10. markets
  11. conservation

Original Text


I'm here to talk to you about the economic invisibility of nature. The bad news is that mother nature's back office isn't working yet, so those invoices don't get issued. But we need to do something about this problem. I began my life as a markets professional and continued to take an interest, but most of my recent effort has been looking at the value of what comes to human beings from nature, and which doesn't get priced by the markets.

A project called TEEB was started in 2007, and it was launched by a group of environment ministers of the G8+5. And their basic inspiration was a stern review of Lord Stern. They asked themselves a question: If economics could make such a convincing case for early action on climate change, well why can't the same be done for conservation? Why can't an equivalent case be made for nature? And the answer is: Yeah, it can. But it's not that straightforward. Biodiversity, the living fabric of this planet, is not a gas. It exists in many layers, ecosystems, species and genes across many scales — international, national, local, community — and doing for nature what Lord Stern and his team did for nature is not that easy.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
natural capital 4
ecosystem services 4
economic invisibility 3
billion people 3
million dollars 3
coral reefs 3
project called 2
lord stern 2
northeastern trade 2
water vapor 2
ecosystem level 2
people depend 2
ecological infrastructure 2
public wealth 2
teeb project 2
billion dollars 2
green carbon 2
carbon markets 2
ethical choice 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
billion people depend 2
green carbon markets 2

Important Words


  1. action
  2. answer
  3. asked
  4. bad
  5. basic
  6. began
  7. beings
  8. biodiversity
  9. called
  10. case
  11. change
  12. climate
  13. community
  14. conservation
  15. continued
  16. convincing
  17. early
  18. easy
  19. economic
  20. economics
  21. ecosystems
  22. effort
  23. environment
  24. equivalent
  25. exists
  26. fabric
  27. gas
  28. genes
  29. group
  30. human
  31. inspiration
  32. interest
  33. international
  34. invisibility
  35. invoices
  36. issued
  37. launched
  38. layers
  39. life
  40. living
  41. local
  42. lord
  43. markets
  44. ministers
  45. mother
  46. national
  47. nature
  48. news
  49. office
  50. planet
  51. priced
  52. problem
  53. professional
  54. project
  55. review
  56. scales
  57. species
  58. started
  59. stern
  60. straightforward
  61. talk
  62. team
  63. teeb
  64. working
  65. yeah