Natural Capital Valuation and Accounting

Through accounting and economic valuation, Sustainable Flows helps businesses and governments better understand the environmental tradeoffs associated with their decisions. This includes full corporate and government natural capital accounting and project specific efforts.

Many important environmental, social and economic factors are often excluded from decision making. Using a range of methods, Sustainable Flows help managers integrate these externalities and their organization’s dependence on natural capital into their procedures and processes.

Economic valuation  informs managers about:

• Dependencies of national economies and revenue streams on ecosystem services
• Opportunities to maximize long-term benefits from ecosystem services
• Actual or potential impacts of economic activities on ecosystem services
• Opportunities to generate reputational assets resulting from improved environmental management

Services

We offer a wide range of services in economic valuation, including:

• Environmental (Natural Capital) and social accounting using best in class methods including those from SEEA, The London Group, and Natural Capital Protocol/Capitals Coalition.
• Ecosystem service tradeoff analysis
• Spatial modeling of ecosystem services and their economic value
• Corporate valuation of ecosystem services dependencies, risks, and opportunities
• Assistance in outreach strategies for communicating environmental management efforts
• Corporate accounting of natural capital