An innovative programme that will enable UK companies to integrate nature into financial decision-making and to mobilise investment in biodiversity, has received £3 million funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
An innovative programme that will enable UK companies to integrate nature into financial decision-making and to mobilise investment in biodiversity, has received £3 million funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Around half of global GDP is dependent on nature but human economic-related activities are causing changing land use, pollution and climate change, resulting in the deterioration and loss of important terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats as well as record declines in many species.
Many companies make decisions that have negative impacts on biodiversity without realising the impacts, the risks to themselves or the extent to which they depend on nature.
Read more at: UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
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