'We need to act now': Can COP15 bridge the nature finance chasm?

Cecilia Keating
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Significantly more money is spent on nature-negative activities each year than schemes that protect biodiversity, UNEP warns | Credit: iStock
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Significantly more money is spent on nature-negative activities each year than schemes that protect biodiversity, UNEP warns | Credit: iStock

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met

UN environment summits are increasingly about money. Namely, which countries are responsible for mobilising 'green' finance, and under what terms, which nations qualify to be on the receiving end of this...

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