Defined as the 'stock of renewable and non-renewable natural resources (eg, plants, animals, air, water, soils, minerals) that combine to yield a flow of benefits to people' by the Capitals' Coalition (
formerly the Natural Capital Coalition), natural capital is at the source of everything that surrounds us.
However, at current consumption levels and without the invention and deployment of ground-breaking technologies, a large share of the resources essential to our lives today will eventually disappear altogether.
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