Summary - TEEB

Citation and disclaimer
This report should be quoted as follows:
TEEB – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
for National and International Policy Makers –
Summary: Responding to the Value of Nature 2009.
Authorship
This executive summary has been put together by:
Patrick ten Brink, Augustin Berghöfer, Christoph
Schröter-Schlaack, Pavan Sukhdev, Alexandra Vakrou,
Stephen White, and Heidi Wittmer, with the valuable
input from Rudolf de Groot, Marianne Kettunen,
Pushpam Kumar, Georgina Langdale, Markus Lehmann,
Helen Mountford, Aude Neuville, Sander Van
der Ploeg, Clare Shine, Benjamin Simmons, Graham
Tucker, James Vause, François Wackenhut, the TEEB
Coordination Group and a range of others. It is a
summary of the TEEB for Policy Makers report;
chapter authors and contributors are noted at the start
of each chapter. For a full list see also the inside back
cover of this summary.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this report are
purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances
be regarded as stating an official position
of the organisations involved.
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TEEB is hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme and supported by the European Commission,
the German Federal Environment Ministry and the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs, recently joined by Norway’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs and The Netherlands’ Ministry of Housing,
Spatial Planning and the Environment.