Road to COP26: Investors wake up to biodiversity risk

Global economy could lose $2.7trn a year

Pedro Gonçalves
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The loss of biodiversity poses as great a risk to humanity as climate change, but efforts to protect it have been overshadowed by the climate fight.

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