Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets - Hardcover

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PAULA DIPERNA is a pioneer and leader at the forefront of finance and climate policy, from the Oval Office to Antarctica, coral reefs to carbon markets. She served as President of CCX International, the world’s first expansive emissions trading system to address global warming; President of the Joyce Foundation; and writer for underwater hero, Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Currently, she is Special Advisor to CDP, the world’s only integrated environmental disclosure system. DiPerna is a frequent media commentator and public speaker.

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In Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets, strategist, author, and adventurer Paula DiPerna delivers a one-of-a-kind story—a breakthrough that unveils today’s most fascinating financial disruption—using price to flip conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why.

DiPerna illuminates an economic contradiction long ignored—how can we value our indispensable atmosphere at zero, but dispensable production in the trillions? This festering imbalance, DiPerna argues, is the root cause of the deterioration of key natural processes on which environmental and social stability increasingly depend.

DiPerna also examines compelling alternatives—new metrics and markets, insurance policies, bonds, and investment vehicles designed to steward nature, not expend it.

DiPerna’s unique narrative brings these exciting financial innovations to life, weaving the latest research with personal journeys to real-world settings as disparate as the Vatican, Wall Street and Board rooms in China—rainforests, mangroves and the remote African bush.

You’ll explore how new financial tools can reward responsible environmental management with financial returns, higher credit ratings and more bankable collateral and borrowing power for strapped public service budgets.

Pricing the Priceless highlights how accounting for our natural resources as long-term assets, instead of short-term raw material, can unlock new sources of capital to guard against nature’s depletion.

A can’t-miss read for all those interested in finance, including retail and institutional investors and portfolio managers, and net- zero carbon experts, Pricing the Priceless is indispensable to rethinking capitalism and the prospects of our planet.

Pricing the Priceless will shape the future, bridging the tangible and intangible to answer DiPerna’s central provocative question: “In our tense and cherished world, what is money for?”

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In Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets, strategist, author, and adventurer Paula DiPerna delivers a one-of-a-kind story--a breakthrough that unveils today's most fascinating financial disruption--using price to flip conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why.

DiPerna illuminates an economic contradiction long ignored--how can we value our indispensable atmosphere at zero, but dispensable production in the trillions? This festering imbalance, DiPerna argues, is the root cause of the deterioration of key natural processes on which environmental and social stability increasingly depend.

DiPerna also examines compelling alternatives--new metrics and markets, insurance policies, bonds, and investment vehicles designed to steward nature, not expend it.

DiPerna's unique narrative brings these exciting financial innovations to life, weaving the latest research with personal journeys to real-world settings as disparate as the Vatican, Wall Street and Board rooms in China--rainforests, mangroves and the remote African bush.

You'll explore how new financial tools can reward responsible environmental management with financial returns, higher credit ratings and more bankable collateral and borrowing power for strapped public service budgets.

Pricing the Priceless highlights how accounting for our natural resources as long-term assets, instead of short-term raw material, can unlock new sources of capital to guard against nature's depletion.

A can't-miss read for all those interested in finance, including retail and institutional investors and portfolio managers, and net- zero carbon experts, Pricing the Priceless is indispensable to rethinking capitalism and the prospects of our planet.

Pricing the Priceless will shape the future, bridging the tangible and intangible to answer DiPerna's central provocative question: "In our tense and cherished world, what is money for?"