Businesses should use their power and budget to build back biodiversity

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Ground Control's Jason Knights charts the ways firms can take action to protect and enhance the UK's natural capital, regardless of whether they have access to green space or not

While the news that a date for the UN COP 15 biodiversity summit has been confirmed for December is welcome, the slow progress of the pre-meeting in Nairobi with 196 nations is less so. Marco Lambertini,...

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