How do we properly value nature in the economy, and what happens when we fail to do so? Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin joins Deborah Lehr for a conversation on climate and development finance.

The US has the strongest and most resilient economy in the world, says Hank Paulson in his interview on the state of the global economy, energy market disruptions, US government debt, the current state of US-China relations. and more.

For Earth Day, PI’s Conservation team is highlighting the bar-tailed godwit and what this small migratory bird reveals about how we should treat our planet.

“We are in a period of what I would call mutually assured economic disruption. That gives a sort of stability that doesn’t come out of mutual trust. It comes out of the fact that each knows that the cost of escalation is high,” said Hank Paulson.

PI’s interim update to the Financing Nature report warns that the global biodiversity financing gap has grown to $942 billion annually and includes a major recommendation to integrate action on climate and biodiversity.

China is advancing conservation technologies, investing heavily in remote sensing systems to monitor ecosystems at scale, with the idea that defining and informing conservation metrics makes building a nature-based economy much more feasible.