Natural Capital, Growth, and Development

Join us for a keynote lecture from Professor Gretchen Daily and panel discussion on the subject of “Natural Capital, Growth, and Development”.

Professor Daily is co-founder and Faculty Director of the Stanford Natural Capital Project – a global partnership whose goal is to integrate the values of nature into planning, policy, finance, and management. Its tools and approaches are now applied in 185 nations through NatCap’s free, open-source InVEST Software Platform. Daily is also the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, the Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

This in-person event promises to be a lively and informative evening with Professor Daily and colleagues from research and business to discuss the evidence on the role of natural capital in growth, who are the leading businesses and countries, and the opportunities now and ahead through new data, partnerships and technologies. A great start to 2026! 

The event takes place just before the IPBES-12 Business and Biodiversity Plenary in Manchester and is part of a series co-convened between Earth Capital Nexus at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, as part of the nature theme of Global School of Sustainability at LSE.

How to attend

To attend this in person event please register in advance here