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WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr

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Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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We want to deliver a green recovery in partnership with business and finance

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Building the first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s. Supporting energy intensive industries as they move to low-carbon techniques. Today, nearly half a million people across our country are employed in the low carbon economy and its supply chains. And many of them require private finance to deliver.

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Reports: Johnson to push for 'Green Marshall Plan' at G7 Summit

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to call on G7 leaders to back an ambitious new plan to fund low carbon infrastructure and nature-based projects in developing countries, modelled on the post-war Marshall Plan which helped rebuild Europe in the wake of World War Two. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained.

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Earth Day: Prime Minister urges world leaders not to 'throw away chance to preserve our planet'

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Speculation is continuing to mount over whether the two high profile summits will be able to proceed as planned, given the worsening coronavirus waves currently afflicting parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

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The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.