• After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska.

Central Banks Must Prepare for Climate‑Driven Labor Shocks

Impact:

• Highlights risk to 1.2 billion workers across 182 countries, particularly in heat‑sensitive sectors like agriculture and construction.
• Urges that central banks incorporate climate‑induced labor productivity losses into monetary policy and risk frameworks.
• Signals a shift in macroeconomic governance: economic stability tied to ecological health.

Net Economic Benefits from Protecting Nature Established

Impact:

• Challenges false trade‑off between ecology and economy, showing that environmental protection yields net economic gains.
• With solar prices down 99% and climate disasters costing ~$143 billion/year, nature-friendly policy is now financially sensible.
  • Supports arguments for carbon pricing, nature-based planning, and ecosystem valuation in policy and planning.

Global Biodiversity Loss Costing the Economy up to $25 Trillion Annually

Impact:

• Quantifies staggering economic losses—up to $25 trillion/year—due to nature degradation from agriculture, energy, fisheries.
• Projects potential of unlocking $10 trillion in business opportunities and 395 million jobs by 2030 via integrated nature‑economy action.
• Underscores urgency of aligning economic policy with biodiversity preservation to avoid systemic ecological‑economic collapse.

Economic Teaching Neglects Ecological Perspectives

Impact:

• Reveals that 75% of UK universities still omit ecological economics from their economics programs.
• Reinforces concern that mainstream economic education fails to equip students for pressing challenges like ecological collapse and social inequality.
• Adds momentum to calls for pluralistic, interdisciplinary reform in economic thought and instruction.

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