Measuring Nature's Benefits

The analysis reveals that current ecosystem services indicators generally have a low capacity to convey useful information to policy-makers, with significant gaps in data and comprehensiveness. These limitations are most pronounced for regulating and cultural services compared to provisioning services.

• Current ecosystem services indicators face significant limitations in supporting policy-makers, including a generally low ability to convey information about services, a lack of comprehensiveness in characterizing the diversity and complexity of benefits, and insufficient data.
• There is a disparity in the quality of indicators based on the type of service, with those for regulating and cultural services performing worse than those for provisioning services across all identified limitations.
• The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, which involved over 1,300 experts from 95 countries, found that more than 60 percent of ecosystem services were already degraded and predicted this trend would accelerate over the following 50 years.

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World Resources Institute (n.d.). Measuring Nature's Benefits. https://www.wri.org/research/measuring-natures-benefits

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World Resources Institute. Measuring Nature's Benefits. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/measuring-natures-benefits.

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@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendmeasuring, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Measuring Nature's Benefits}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/measuring-natures-benefits}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }