“If we care about our common future and the common future of our descendants, we should all in part be naturalists” - The Economics of Biodiversity, Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’s seminal review, commissioned by the British Government in 2019, set out in an eloquent and human voice the fundamental challenge our economic system has to meet: we must incorporate the nature, or natural capital, on which our systems of financial, and produced and human capital depend.
This is going to be a difficult and painful process. It is also inherently one in which each of us must engage – in our personal choices, in our corporate decisions, reporting and accounting, and at a state-level in national accounts and policy.
Mishcon Purpose’s team includes lawyers, former policy makers, and biologists.
We work with businesses, landowners, NGO’s, businesses, investors and governments on addressing this challenge. Our work includes:
- Nature finance
- Biodiversity and carbon credits
- Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), including DEFRA’s ELM Test and Trials
- Real estate biodiversity strategy
- The Urban Biodiversity Standard and green cities
- Conservation
- Rewilding projects
- Protected area governance and human rights