Bloom or bust? Why we can no longer ignore biodiversity

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Tackling nature loss and scaling 'nature tech' depends on collaboration between financial markets and governments, writes UBS Asset Management's Suni Harford

The global community has overcome seemingly intractable sustainability problems before — just look at the agreement to repair the ozone layer in the late 1980s, praised by one UN official as a "positive...

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