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‘Biodiversity credits needed to bridge $824 bln gap’

Honey bees on a rose. Photo by Vicky DeLoach via Flickr CC-BY-2.0.

Current efforts to address global biodiversity loss are inadequate and face a financing gap of between 598 billion and 824 billion dollars per year, a new study has concluded. To address this gap, governments and businesses need to support the introduction of ‘biodiversity credit markets’, to be modelled in a manner similar to the carbon credit markets that already exist.

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