Beyond carbon offsetting: Inside the corporate drive to revive Britain's dwindling rainforests

Cecilia Keating
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Temperate rainforests once covered Dartmoor but are today an all-too-rare phenomenon | Credit: The Devon Wildlife Trusts
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Temperate rainforests once covered Dartmoor but are today an all-too-rare phenomenon | Credit: The Devon Wildlife Trusts

Could a partnership between Aviva and the Wildlife Trusts offer a new model for corporate financing of nature-based solutions?

It is a bright winter's day in early March and the sun is beaming down on Dartmoor. I'm clambering down the side of a valley on the Eastern edge of the national park, traversing a brittle landscape awash...

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