#42: Ralph Chami (Blue Green Future) – How Much Is a Whale Worth, Dead or Alive?

<p><a href="https://www.feddegobbi.com/walkandtalk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Here is a link</a> to get more information about <em>The</em> <em>Ocean Age Walk &amp; Talk</em> and join the waitlist.</p><p><b>Ralph’s bio:</b></p><p>Ralph Chami is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Green Future and Rebalance Earth. He spent 25 years at the International Monetary Fund, most recently as Assistant Director, before turning his focus to valuing living nature as an asset class. His work, which puts a financial value on the ecosystem services provided by whales, elephants, seagrass, mangroves and forests, has been featured at TED, in the Financial Times, National Geographic, the New York Times, and on CNN. He is the recipient of the 2024 MadBlue Five Oceans Award and holds a PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.<br /><br /><b>Timestamps:</b></p><p>The Ocean Age Walk &amp; Talk - <a href="https://www.feddegobbi.com/walkandtalk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Link to join the waitlist</a></p><p>00:01:10 - Introduction: Ralph Chami </p><p>00:02:10 - Ralph Chami sharing his early passion for music</p><p>00:04:17 - The whale encounter that changed everything “before 2017” and “after 2017”</p><p>00:05:20 - Building a model to estimate the economic value of whales’ carbon capture</p><p>00:09:30 - Fertilising, another unknown ecosystem service provided by whales </p><p>00:13:15 - How wrong incentives completely alter the true value of whales </p><p>00:16:00 - Telling the story of whales and elephants as natural assets with Fabio Bergonzi</p><p>00:18:15 - Seagrass and Carlos Duarte’s marine ecology insights</p><p>00:19:05 - More living entities that provide valuable services for free</p><p>00:22:05 - The fallacy of the current system which ignores planetary boundaries</p><p>00:24:40 - From valuing extraction to rewarding the preservation of living things</p><p>00:27:00 - Seeing the intrinsic value of nature can make for a better future<br /><br /></p><p><b>Useful Links &amp; Resources:  </b></p><p>The Ocean Age Walk &amp; Talk - <a href="https://www.feddegobbi.com/walkandtalk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Link to join the waitlist</a></p><p>Ralph Chami on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-chami-63785313/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LinkedIn</a>.</p><p>Blue Green Future: <a href="https://bluegreenfuture.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Website</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-green-future/posts/?feedView=all