Businesses urged to align decision-making with 'environmental reality'

Stuart Stone
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Business leaders face calls to respond to escalating nature-related risks revealed by landmark report from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

The government has called on businesses to better respond to the escalating nature-related risks revealed by a landmark report published yesterday by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and...

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