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Ocean & Blue Economy Finance Event Series: Career Talk with Emma Calhoun

On February 17, the Sustainable Finance Professionals Network hosted a discussion with Emma Calhoun from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, attended by around 20 people. Emma shared insights from her work on natural capital, explaining how it can be used to organize the stocks and flows of natural ecosystems and translate ecosystem changes into economic value through both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Her work involves systems thinking across hundreds of stakeholders, linking ecological changes to impacted communities, risks, and financial implications. She highlighted two current projects: one assessing climate impacts on UK fisheries and another estimating the economic value of a protected forest by combining ecological data with tourism and recreation value. Emma also shared career advice, noting key gaps in the field, including low private-sector adoption of TCFD and the lack of ocean-focused frameworks in existing nature-related reporting standards, and encouraged students to intentionally shape their LinkedIn feeds toward the work they aspire to do.

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