Forests provide pure water and regulate temperatures. Wetlands help mitigate floods. Businesses can hurt these and other ecosystem services (like wind breaks and the pollination of crops) or then can assist and benefit from them.
A new report from Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) looks at seven tools business can use to assess their impacts on ecosystem services, and also makes the case on why companies should know risks and opportunities associated with ecosystem services.
"Given the growing efforts around environmental markets and policy changes to protect environmental services, companies need to understand their dependencies and impacts on ecosystem services," said Linda Hwang, BSR's manager of environmental research and development.
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