The Dasgupta Review provides a rich overview of the economics of biodiversity, paints a bleak picture of the current state of biodiversity, and is a call to arms for action in anticipation of the CBD COP 15. The Review takes a global perspective aimed at the high level of international and national policy on biodiversity, while elucidating the very local nature of biodiversity threats and values. The approach is orthodox in its diagnosis via the language of externalities, natural capital, shadow pricing, asset returns, and the suite of remedial policies that follow. Yet, at its centre is an ‘unorthodox’ perspective: the economy is embedded in the environment and growth is limited. We offer reflections on this framing in light of its objectives for biodiversity. The limits to growth message will be criticised and applauded in equal measure by different economists. The central place of valuation and the aggregated concept of biodiversity will draw criticism from outside the discipline. Yet the Review provides a foundation for biodiversity economics, and its largely orthodox framing may invoke the intended step change in the mainstream approach to economic growth.

《达斯古普塔评论》提供了丰富的生物多样性经济学概述，描绘了生物多样性目前的惨淡景象，并呼吁为《生物多样性公约》第十五次缔约方大会而采取行动。国际和国家生物多样性政策的水平，同时阐明了生物多样性威胁和价值的地方性。该方法通过外部性，自然资本，影子定价，资产收益以及随后的一系列补救政策等语言来进行诊断，这是传统的方法。然而，其核心是“非正统”的观点：经济嵌入环境中，增长受到限制。根据其框架的生物多样性目标，我们对此进行了反思。增长信息的极限将受到不同经济学家的平等批评和称赞。评估的中心位置和生物多样性的总体概念将引起学科之外的批评。然而，该评论为生物多样性经济学提供了基础，其主要是正统的框架可能会在经济增长的主流方法中引起预期的步骤变化。