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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster seems to cost far more than just a cleanup and compensation for lost revenue collected immediately after the destruction of ecosystems, says a leading expert said, Tuesday. In an interview conducted in conjunction with the issuance of UN reports about the relationship between business and biodiversity, an economist Pavan Sukhdev told BP emphasize the need for catastrophic sea change in the way of "natural capital", which become the foundation of human well-being measured and assessed.
"No visibility of economic issues on biodiversity and ecosystem services - clean water, fresh water, oceans are healthy, fertile soils, stable climate - must be dealt with seriously," Sukhdev said in a telephone conversation from London. "We must move into the community where public and private property is recognized as important. However, today how many people understand the` natural capital 'as a comparison of financial capital? " Part of the problem is not knowing how to appreciate everything that has long been presumed to exist in unlimited quantities. "We can not manage what we do not measure, and we did not measure the value of the benefits of nature or the price of losing all that," said Sukhdev, lead author of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TTEB) for Business report.
But residents of the country and global industry that led to the amount not later than nine billion people in the middle of this century has created a tremendous strain. Each year, the 3,000 largest companies in the world of environmental damage with a value of 2.2 trillion U.S. dollars (1.75 trillion euros), said Sukhdev. He cited a company statement released immediately and prepared by consultants TruCost, based in England. "No company or individual CEO is to blame. They mengikutip path created for them, the company can deliver all of their costs to society," he said.
BP oil leak, which has issued as many as 60,000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day, has emerged as a case study on how to protect valuable natural assets. If the Government requires an ongoing "holistic economic assessment" before drilling is allowed, the potential liability might have prompted BP to conduct a more stringent security measures, he said. When it appears, "We just think about all this after a problem occurs, then hurried and pontan-skelter" said Sukhdev. He refers to the result of the Exxon Valdez, a supertanker ships littering the once pristine area of Alaska, Prince William Sound, with 11 million gallons of oil. BP oil wells had been spewing the same amount every four or five days since 20 April, according to U.S. government estimates.
Setting the price on the value of the affected ecosystems are also changing the estimate of losses. "But what about the economic costs from loss of use - loss of ekopariwisata, fish stocks, which is the future for industry losses, not usually caught fish in the area," said Sukhdev. Oil was also able to kill hundreds of square kilometers of mangrove forests along the coast, which is a habitat for marine species of commercial and holder of a devastating storm. Even thousands of yacht owners may have legitimate claims. "Many people have invested in a cruise ship, including berthing costs, for people to take care of it. When the time comes to use it or rent it, they can not do that - it was the loss of utilization. Did anyone consider that?"
The crisis of the collapse of these ecosystems will be addressed only when the value of natural services is fully reflected in decision-making business and politics, said Sukhdev. "We're half way to the development of equipment. Make people understand that these devices do exist and must be used, we are in a position three to five on a scale count of 10," he said. "Regarding the actual implementation - between zero and two," said Sukhdev as journalists reported the French news agency AFP, Marlowe Hood. TEEB report, which was supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, launched by the European Commission in 2007, after the G8 and the countries emerging major eknonomi calling for a global study on the economic and biodiversity. Full study of it will be disclosed at the end of this year, the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan. (C003/T010)
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