Environment Secretary: UK is 'on track' to meet COP15 nature recovery goals

Cecilia Keating
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Credit: The Wildlife Trusts and Hogan Lovell
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Credit: The Wildlife Trusts and Hogan Lovell

Therese Coffey urges business leaders and financiers to ramp up investment in nature at event marking six months on from COP15 Biodiversity Summit

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has urged the private sector to work closely with government to deliver on the suite of 2030 protection and recovery targets agreed last December at the COP15 Biodiversity...

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