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(c) Marino
(c) Marino
Investing in the Planet’s Safety Net
By Midori Paxton, Head, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, UNDP Let us step back in time to more than 2000 years ago, when Chinese philosophical and historical texts contained sophisticated conceptions of nature and our place within it. Daoism, a school of philosophical thought popular to this day, focuse...Read more
(C) Sreehari Devadas
(C) Sreehari Devadas
India: For action on biodiversity, we must know what to spend and where
An interview with V.B. Mathur, India’s official delegate to the fourth Nairobi negotiating session of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity By Flavia Lopes, IndiaSpend Why is financing biodiversity conservation important for developing countries? What can you do without finance in your personal...Read more
(C) Daniel Grandfield
(C) Daniel Grandfield
Ensuring nature positive insurance
Can the insurance sector help safeguard our natural capital? By Onno van den Heuvel and Jan Kellett Estimates show that nature and ecosystems provide over US$125 trillion per year in goods and services to the global economy. However, nature and ecosystems are in grave danger of collapsing and despit...Read more