Decline of nature poses major economic threat, warn Oxford economists

Madeleine Cuff
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Research team finds businesses and politicians are failing to recognise the 'systemic risk' that accumulates as the quality of the natural environment deteriorates

Flawed economic and political institutions are blind to the financial threat posed by the decline in the natural environment, according to a new paper released today by a team of economists at Oxford University....

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