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S2E1: Eco-nomics: Putting a value on nature is also key to saving it
Businesses are buying into new financial products that could help save nature, but funds for nature’s protection have not reached the scale required.
Synopsis: Every first and third Sunday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.
Coral reef bonds, biodiversity credits and schemes that enable national debt to be forgiven in exchange for conservation efforts.
These are just some of the financial instruments that have been in the news recently, as the world races to find the funds needed to prevent nature…
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