Nature-based solutions: The next financial asset class?

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It is essential to build a pipeline of investable nature-based climate projects to match the significant flows of capital available, writes Lib Dem peer Lord Terverson

The moral and ecological arguments for protecting nature are only too obvious. No one can survive on a planet of denuded forests and oceans emptied of sea life. For all the goodwill in the world, however,...

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