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WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr

WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr
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  • 12 February 2020
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Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities

Rising food prices, droughts, commodity shortages, extreme flooding, and coastal erosion will ravage economies around the world if action is not taken to confront the multiple environmental crises facing...

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