The Economic Value of Nature vs. Global GDP

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Have you ever considered nature’s worth in dollars and cents?

To illustrate its immense value, we partnered with Zero Carbon Analytics to visualize the annual economic value that nature provides humans, using data from Boston Consulting Group (BCG). 

Key Takeaways

• The value that nature provides is typically broken into four ecosystem services. Namely, regulating, provisioning, cultural, and supporting/habitat services.
• BCG estimates that the annual value of these four services is a whopping $179 trillion. 
• Global GDP in 2023 was around $105 trillion (2023 dollars). That means nature provides ecosystem services 1.7 times greater in value than global GDP each year.