UN: $8.1tr required for nature-based climate solutions over next 30 years

Michael Holder
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Fourfold rise in investment needed for efforts restore the natural world while also mitigating greenhouse gases and climate impacts, UN warns

As much as $8.1tr global investment in protecting, conserving and restoring the natural world is required over the next 30 years in order to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity and land degradation...

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