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The world now faces an 'ocean emergency' according to UN chief Antonio Guterres
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The world now faces an 'ocean emergency' according to UN chief Antonio Guterres

Businesses and investors are increasingly demanding metrics for measuring nature risk, but clear guidelines remain some way off yet

As awareness surrounding the scale of the crisis facing the planet's natural world has grown, so businesses and investors have come under increasing pressure to better understand the ways in which they...

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