WWF publishes guide for financial regulators and central banks to tackle deforestation

Cecilia Keating
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WWF publishes guide for financial regulators and central banks to tackle deforestation

Central bankers, financial regulators, and supervisors have an 'important role' in tackling the bankrolling of deforestation and ecosystem conversion, report warns

WWF has published a guide for how financial sector regulators, supervisors, and central banks can slow financial flows that are enabling deforestation and ecosystem conversion that threatens countries'...

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