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When businesses review their balance books, the contributions of nature to profits and losses are usually egregiously absent. No company operates in a vacuum.

To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people benefit from it, according to new research published in Nature Sustainability.

A push to better recognise the economic value of “natural capital” – water systems, biodiversity, soil and carbon stores – has prompted the creation of what aims to be the world’s largest investment firm dedicated to projects that help the planet.