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

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Water shortages and a decline in pollinators will affect agricultural production levels, trade, and food prices across Eastern and Western Africa, central Asia and parts of South America, the study predicts. 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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BlackRock found that in the first quarter of 2020, during the pandemic, 94 per cent of a set of sustainable funds outperformed their non-sustainable counterparts. In January this year, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange, followed by its dual listing on the London Stock Exchange.

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

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As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment. The voice of vulnerable countries is really important at COPs," he explained.

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

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By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".