#DidYouKnow Stanford offers a course on #NaturalCapital? Check out this Career Conversation with students Megan Chen and Zoe Rehnborg to learn more about their experience in Bio 179, "The Science & Practice of Valuing Nature for a Better World", offered each fall: bit.ly/4tE8uxW

Need to calculate the electricity generation potential of ocean waves? Use the Wave Energy #NatCap InVEST model. This model estimates expected wave power and harvested energy, and calculates the value of constructing or operating a wave energy conversion facility. 🌊 stanford.io/4tJfl9N

In this week's #NatCapReview, our software team lead shares reflections, opportunities, and tools for users to contribute to #OpenSource InVEST. Want to contribute? Dive into: 👥 NatCap Community Forum 🔌 InVEST Plugin Registry 🗺️ Core InVEST 💡 Documentation bit.ly/4wyLF0J 📸 TK Trepte

🌽 By understanding and managing businesses’ impacts and dependencies, businesses can reduce risks and deliver positive outcomes for both business and biodiversity. To avoid greenwashing, it is essential that businesses develop transparent and credible strategies. IPBES #BizBiodiversity Asssessment

#DidYouKnow that July 26th is #InternationalMangroveDay? 🌊🌿 NatCappers' research on mangroves' benefits as a climate solution and economic engine have helped the Belizean government pledge to protect 46 square miles of existing mangroves: stanford.io/4fEJktU

Ken Bagstad spent decades pushing the world to value nature economically. As a USGS economist, he led a 27-agency effort to track America's natural assets. He came to Stanford as a Woods Policy Fellow to explore similar opportunities in California. 🔗 stanford.io/44NH1zF @natcapalliance.bsky.social

This #TrainingTuesday, check out the InVEST Coastal Vulnerability model 🌊🌴 The model compares coastal exposure to erosion/flooding in severe weather, allowing users to pinpoint areas where people face higher risk during storm waves and surges. #NatCapInVEST stanford.io/4p227lI

The 20th anniversary edition of the Symposium brought attendees from 30+ countries together to discuss how natural capital approaches are being integrated into policy and finance decisions. You can find videos, photos, and news on the new event page: stanford.io/4hkJzN2 #NatCap2026 #NaturalCapital

This #TrainingTuesday, seeing is believing: the new Visual Reports feature makes ecosystem services modeling easier to access, interpret, and share. Make your own report! Senior Software Engineer, David Fisher, shows your how: bit.ly/4vFhT9a #NatCapInVEST #EcosystemServices #Maps

#DidYouKnow that the NatCap Alliance is three collaborators larger now? 🌐🤝 In June, we welcomed Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank as collaborating international financial institutions and Gund Institute for Environment as a research collaborator. stanford.io/3SB1xAC

This #TrainingTuesday, we're reflecting on InVEST® events at the 2026 Natural Capital Symposium. Attendees met InVEST software designers, explored real-world applications, and participated in hands-on tutorials. #NatCap2026 #NatCapInVEST #EcosystemServices

Are you a practitioner, government professional, academic, and consultant who want to apply natural capital approaches in their own work? Explore the new Implementation Toolkit for Scaling Natural Capital Approaches, shared at this year's Symposium #NatCap2026: bit.ly/NatCap-Toolkit

Re-introducing our publication, the Natural Capital Review 📖🌱 This week, we welcome new collaborating institutions (Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank as IFI collaborators, and Gund Institute for Environment as a research member) and share resources: bit.ly/3RyrtwA

Congratulate the new winners of the Natural Capital Young Leaders Prize: Bhutan National Statistics Bureau, Luisa Olivera, Fabián Villalba, and Boris F. Ochoa-Tocachi! 🏆🌿 This prize aims to elevate early career professionals who bring impact through natural capital approaches. stanford.io/4ezFD9u

Thank you to everyone who has made their way to #Stanford for #NatCap2026! On Day 1, we reflected on 20 years of NatCap, explored InVEST, and heard from MDBs and country ministries of finance. We’re excited to carry that great energy into the rest of the Symposium. 🌱 bit.ly/NatCap2026-agenda

As NatCap marks 20 years of valuing nature in decisions, we are pleased to welcome Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as international financial institution (IFI) collaborators, and Gund Institute for Environment as a research member. stanford.io/3SB1xAC

It's time: welcome, one and all, to the Natural Capital Symposium 2026 🌱💡 Over the next three days, we are hosting 300+ attendees, representing 32 countries from around the globe, at #StanfordUniversity. We look forward to this valuable time to learn from each other and connect. #NatCap2026

#DidYouKnow that NatCap started new writing columns this year? ✍️💻 The #NatCapReview publishes weekly, sharing insights into the future of sustainable development, nature finance, strategic governance, resilience, and flagship software #NatCapInVEST through global and local stories. bit.ly/4vtjsYl

We often talk about InVEST's uses in natural habitats, but this #TrainingTuesday, learn more about InVEST's Crop Production models 🌾🌿 These models utilize user-supplied land cover information to estimate crop yield and nutrient value for a fixed set of crops. #Agriculture #LULC stanford.io/4uQtHos

Have you heard? Visual reports are now available for many InVEST® models. Quickly generate reports, verify your input data, and communicate initial results with the new Reports Feature in #NatCapInVEST, making ecosystem services analysis even more accessible. #GIS #Nature #ESS bit.ly/NatCapInVEST

As California faces threats from extreme heat, flooding, drought, wildfire, and sea-level rise, its natural resources play an essential role for #climate resilience. Explore the role of #NaturalCapital in policy, planning, and public investment decisions as infrastructure. Register: bit.ly/4vmQKIM

Check out NatCap InVEST's Crop Pollination Model this #TrainingTuesday! 🐦🌾 This model estimates insect pollinator nest sites, floral resources, and flight ranges to derive an index of pollinator abundance on each cell on a landscape: stanford.io/45s3seh #NaturalCapital #Pollination #Agriculture

We’re excited to announce the #NatCapInVEST 3.20.0 release! 💻 This minor release features new reports for three models (Urban #NatureAccess, Urban Cooling, and Annual Water Yield) and quality changes. Share what you think: community.naturalcapitalalliance.org Get the update: bit.ly/NatCapInVEST

Economies and communities depend on nature, yet nature's values are often invisible when measuring economic capacity. What if we could change that? 🌱 Learn more about Gross Ecosystem Product #GEP, which incorporates natural capital, in the #NatCapReview: bit.ly/43wQDhy

#DidYouKnow you can explore real-world examples of natural capital approaches in action across the globe? 🌄🏦 NatCap worked with the IDB, Asian Development Bank, World Bank and 16 countries to co-develop natural capital approaches tailored to each country. stanford.io/4o4uVZT

This #TrainingTuesday, take a look at NatCap InVEST's Annual Water Yield Model! 🌊💡 The model estimates the average quantity of water produced by a watershed, then estimates the value of water yield for reservoir hydropower production: stanford.io/4l6cuUL #NaturalCapital #WaterYield #Hydropower

Last call to register for #NatCap2026 🌱🤝 Join leaders, researchers, and practitioners across sectors to discuss how natural capital approaches are being mainstreamed in research, technology, and decision-making 🔗 Registration ends TOMORROW, 6/10 (PDT): bit.ly/NatCap2026 youtu.be/SbD5RJKuNa0

Join us for the Natural Capital Symposium 2026

Explore natural capital approaches. Discover frontiers in science, policy, and Economics. Engage with InVEST®. Build a global community.

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#NatCapImpact: systematically shaping decisions NatCap makes nature’s value “visible and usable for decision-making,” linking “global frameworks to local priorities,” per a Belize partner. From Mexico: NatCap puts “numbers and maps to nature that decision-makers simply cannot ignore.”

New NatCap #research in Science Magazine: In a first-of-its-kind analysis, an interdisciplinary team applied a new modeling approach to 146 countries to show how strategic land use can provide significant gains for #climate and #biodiversity without economic losses. 📽️ youtu.be/--gUSXDx2Xc

What are Landscape Efficiency Frontiers? | Modeling sustainable development for people and planet

National governments and finance institutions face difficult challenges reconciling biodiversity, climate, and economic development goals. Researchers across the Natural Capital Alliance (NatCap TEEMs at the University of Minnesota, Natural Capital Insights, WWF) and from other institutions integrated spatial biophysical and economic data with optimization methods to develop sustainable landscape efficiency frontiers.

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#DKY that Nature in Action is #NatCap's quarterly newsletter? Stay informed with the latest natural capital news, innovations in technology and software, ecosystem services #research, project updates from across the globe, and much more. 🌱 bit.ly/4mjgx0H