Rio+20 Launch: TEEB for Water and Wetlands 13 June 2012 | News
story A new TEEB -The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity-
initiative for Water and Wetlands will be launched at the UN's
Summit on Sustainable Development on 15 June in Rio, Brazil. The
new TEEB for Water and Wetlands aims to utilise the TEEB
approach to generate a better understanding of the value of
ecosystem services provided by water and wetlands, such as
freshwater supply, food, building materials, risk reduction and
flood control, groundwater recharge, biodiversity, climate
change adaptation and more. IUCN's Water and Nature Initiative
(WANI) contributed content and funding for the new study
"Following up on the great interest in natural infrastructure
after the 6th World Water Forum, WANI is supporting the TEEB
study on the importance of nature as infrastructure. It will
pull together the evidence base needed for building strategies
for investment in nature as water infrastructure, that can be
accessible and used by policy-makers", sa