Description
Q3 2020 Natural Infrastructure
IF A TREE IS WORTH $300… THEN IS THE EARTH WORTH $33 QUADRILLION?
Climate Change Business Journal presents a conceptual model by the EBI research team that puts the value of natural infrastructure at $33 quadrillion. Based on a meta-study of natural resource data and environmental economics papers, mostly in the academic realm, CCBJ presents a global policy argument with not a flippant but a serious viewpoint of: ‘You might as well start somewhere’. The theory is that acknowledging the finite value of Earth and its resources and ecosystems—or its ‘natural capital’ or ‘natural infrastructure’—supports the validity of using economic instruments to account for incremental negative impacts on that value like pollution taxes or resource extraction fees. Conversely or complementarity, economic models can increasingly assign credits to positive impacts provided by effective management of natural infrastructure assets to preserve, enhance, restore or even create new value. The environmental and climate change industries will be wise to serve both ends of the market.
CCBJ Section Table of Contents
The Economic Value of Natural Infrastructure
The Benefits Of Natural Infrastructure
Battery Storage Capacity to Triple by 2021
Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity Still Leads But Planners Have Moved Elsewhere
Atmospheric Services Study Concedes a Value of 1000X GWP is an Underestimate
Putting A Price Tag On The Melting Of The Polar Ice Caps
The Human Toll On Biodiversity & The Sixth Extinction
Global Species Count at 8.7 Million
History of Earth’s Five Mass Extinctions
A Brief History of GHGs, EUAs, the MSR and EU ETS; EGD Next
Market Likely To Be More Receptive To Forest Credits
Trending Demand for Natural Climate Solutions
REDD Gone Wrong: Opinion On Norway’s Billion-Dollar Gamble In Indonesia
Data Does Not Lie… But Money Talks: A model for climate adaptation funding: The Retroactive Carbon Tax
Mitigation Banking: A Model for Natural Infrastructure?
Exhibits in this edition of EBJ & CCBJ include:
Environmental Services: Infrastructure Markets in 2019 ($mil)
Infrastructure Markets in the Environmental Industry: EBJ’s Factors of Disruption in the 2020s
American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Report Card History
Infrastructure By The Numbers
Infrastructure & Services Markets in the United States: Total U.S. Service Economy Revenues in 2019 ($mil)
Contributions of Large and Small Companies in U.S. Construction and Professional Services Industries
Brown and Caldwell Gross Revenues, 2000-2019 ($mil)
U.S. Community Water System Summary
Total 20-Year Need by Water System Size/Type and Project Category
20-year Need Comparison to Previous Five Editions ($ billions)
B&V Survey: Which elements do you see as being included in a digital water initiative, and which elements does your utility currently use?
WSP Gross Revenues, 2013-2019 ($mil)
GEI Consultants Gross Revenues, 2000-2019 ($mil)
Mead & Hunt Gross Revenues, 2000-2019 ($mil)
Civil & Environmental Consultants Gross Revenues, 2000-2019
Burns & McDonnell Gross Revenues, 2000-2019 ($mil)
Kleinfelder Gross Revenues, 2000-2019 ($mil)
Public Spending on Highway Infrastructure
Miles of Telephone Wire in the United States
Energy & Power Infrastructure Categories
EBI’s 2020 Model of the Economic Value of Natural Infrastructure in $ Trillions
Total Installed Cost of Large-Scale Battery Storage Systems: 2015-2017 (energy capacity cost in $/kilowatthour)
Large-Scale Battery Storage Cumulative Power Capacity 2010-2023
Categorizing and Ranking the Twelve Atmospheric Services
Mass Extinctions in the History of Earth
EU Allowance Prices: 2008-2020 in euros/tonne
Percentage of Primary Forest Cover and Tree Cover In Brazil
Annual loss of primary forest and tree cover in Brazil in hectares
Annual loss of primary forest and tree cover in Indonesia in ha
Percentage annual loss of tree cover in Brazil and Indonesia
Atmospheric Concentration of Carbon Dioxide: 800,000 Years
Atmospheric Concentration of Carbon Dioxide: 600-2018
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Warming Scenarios
Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1965-2019 (million tonnes of CO2)
Total Global Electricity Generation 1985-2019 (Terawatt-Hours)
Global Electricity Generation by Source 1985-2019 (Terawatt-Hours)
Energy Intensity in Exajoules/Tonne CO2 Emissions, 1965-2019
Energy Productivity: Economic Output Per Unit of Energy Use
Global Emissions Productivity 1990-2019: Economic Output Per Unit of CO2 Emissions
Range of Amounts for a Retroactive Carbon Tax on CO2 Emissions 1900-2019
Financial Burden of Retroactive Carbon Tax at $2/tonne
