Triggered by a powerful combination of recent extreme weather events, a ‘return-to-nature’ sentiment in society during lockdown, media attention around COP26 and the release of the Dasgupta Report on the Economics of Biodiversity, the penny has eventually dropped - both the climate and nature emergency have to be addressed, and quick. Governments and private businesses have to change their mindset and start seeing ‘nature’ as the fundamental resource our economy is built on. Basically, environmental costs and benefits need to make their way into corporate balance sheets.
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