02/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 2 October, the European Commission launched a new call for evidence of economic consequences of biodiversity loss. The evidence will help to establish the 2nd phase of a study entitled: “The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity - TEEB”. The first phase of the TEEB study sketched out a framework likely to allow the economic consequences of biodiversity loss to be measured. The second phase will develop and implement that framework and also...