'We have scraped and scoured our environment to the bone'
Exchequer Secretary Simon Clarke's speech on the new 'Economics of Biodiversity' report - in full
In May, the UN released a report on the state of biodiversity on Earth showing that species of all kinds - mammals, birds, insects, plants, fish - are disappearing at an alarming rate. One million species...
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