About Toward Optimal Nature Markets Pathway

Can we put a price on nature? Consider a whale: is its value $100, $10,000, or even $100,000? You might be surprised to learn that a living whale is valued at the environmental services a living whale provides are estimated to be worth over $3 million. This pathway, featuring Ralph Chami, CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Green Future, introduces Nature Markets as a framework for understanding and valuing these services. Learn what Nature Markets are, how they should be structured, and the actions needed to establish them, and understand why nature's preservation is far more valuable to humanity than its exploitation.

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Ralph Chami

CEO & Co-founder: Blue Green Future

Ralph Chami is a financial economist who has been at the International Monetary Fund for 23 years and is currently the Assistant Director of the Institute for Capacity Development. He founded Blue Green Future, a strategy to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, focusing on species like whales and elephants as allies. Ralph has experience working with low-income and fragile states, providing policy advice, training, and capacity development on macro-financial economic policy. His expertise includes remittances, inclusive growth, financial markets development, banking regulation, and valuing natural capital.