'The world is ready': Campaigners and academics call on government to scale up Nature Based Solutions

James S Murray
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'The world is ready': Campaigners and academics call on government to scale up Nature Based Solutions

Christiana Figueres, Nick Stern, and Paul Polman lead renewed push for beefed up approach to nature-based emissions reductions

A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously...

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