The fact is that nature is already being bought and sold, mined and marketed at knock-down prices that fail to capture its real worth, especially to the livelihoods of the poor. In large part, this reflects unregulated or missing markets that fail to capture the values that nature provides to us every day – point emphasized in the G-8+5 project on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, hosted by the UNEP.
事实是，自然已经在买卖了，人们以远不能代表其真实价值极低的价格开采和销售着自然，穷人受害尤甚。在很大程度上讲，这反映了监管和制度缺失的市场不能体现自然每天向我们提供的价值——这正是联合国环境开发署生态系统和生物多样性经济学G8+5工程所强调的。