What services does nature provide for free and how much are they worth in cash terms? Green economists say we need to put a price tag on trees and bees in order to save them, but how? And is it really such a good idea?

#PlanetA #ecosystemservices #greeneconomy

Credits:
Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Camera and Graphics: Henning Goll
Video Editor: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

Interviewees:
Ralph Chami, Blue Green Future
Minnie Degawan, Re:wild
Adrienne Buller, Commonwealth, UK
June Rubis, Director of Research, ICCA Consortium

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Interviewees:
Ralph Chami, Blue Green Future
Minnie Degawan, Re:wild
Adrienne Buller, Common Wealth
June Rubis, ICCA Consortium

Read more:
Tree value calculator:
https://www.itreetools.org/

Kawari Fund:
https://www.rewild.org/press/newly-la...

Carbon offset investigation:
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

Value of a whale:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....

Why we shouldn't price whales:
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:02 What's a fair price for a tree?
03:13 Whale for sale?
04:03 Why we should put a price tag on nature
06:14 Why we shouldn't put a price tag on nature
09:32 Solutions
10:40 Conclusion

Sources:
Photos at 6:08 by Carrie Stengel