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[businesswireindia]

Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy - the world’s largest conservation organization - will be visiting India from March 26th- April 3rd to meet with several high-level government officials and ministers at the Central and State level in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. He will be accompanied by conservation scientists and experts during these meetings to discuss how The Nature Conservancy can support India’s sustainable development goals.

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China's Business Leaders Are Stepping Up to Address Global Conservation Challenges

China’s Business Leaders Are Stepping Up to Address Global Conservation Challenges

Mark Tercek President and CEO of the Nature Conservancy and author of Nature’s Fortune

China’s Business Leaders Are Stepping Up to Address Global Conservation Challenges May 3, 2016 

China’s economic growth over the last few decades has been extraordinary. Hundreds of millions of Chinese people have entered the country’s new middle class—one of the greatest and fastest increases in human…

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De economie van groene infrastructuur

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Nature's Fortune touted by former Goldman director

          Nature is as important to the economy as manufacturing or agriculture, and remains an untapped investment opportunity, according to Mark Tercek, a former Goldman Sachs managing director, now president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. He argues that the concept of conservation must be expanded to include not just the "dynamics of the forest" but also specific decisions businesspeople make up and down the supply chain.

         In an interview, Tercek said he agrees with futurist Hazel Henderson's paradigm-shifting depiction of the economy--not as a pie (divided between the public and private sectors) but as a cake, a four-layer cake where three layers of infrastructure support the private sector. In addition to bridges and roads (the public sector,) there are families and communities (which she dubs the "love economy.") And the foundation of that cake--the mother of all infrastructures--is nature, or natural capital.

         Or, as some put it:

         "The global economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment."  

          Tercek takes this a step further by actually comparing the economics of built or gray infrastructure such as pipes and treatment plants with green infrastructure consisting of woodlands and grasslands, wetlands and rivers.

          "Green infrastructure is usually cheaper than gray," he says, "and it's more efficient. And unlike gray infrastructure, it accomplishes many things at once."

see more here:

www.fa-mag.com/news/nature-s-fortune-touted-by-former-goldman-director-14301.html

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Sometimes I get so excited about new initiatives at TNC that I inadvertently give the impression that we're backing away from our traditional conservation work. But that's not at all the case. Land protection has been the core of our work for the past 60 years. It will continue to be an important tool in our conservation toolbox. I learned that a leader needs to be very thoughtful as a communicator.

Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy