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The Adapted Metropolis

Chris Hall

trillion by doing so, according to a World Bank report. Extreme climate-related events can reduce a property’s value by between 5-20%, according to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). Last year, UNEP FI published guidance outlining the kinds of resilient buildings needed to cope with new climate extremes.

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How do we finally get beyond tracking GPD and measure 'inclusive wealth' instead?

Corporate Knights

Foundational texts in support of inclusive wealth include Cambridge economist Partha Dasgupta’s 2001 book , Human Well-Being and the Environment, and his Harvard counterpart Martin Weitzman’s 2003 book , Income, Wealth and the Maximum Principle. Inclusive wealth is measured by both the World Bank and UN Environment Programme (Unep).

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