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Putting a price on nature would be disastrous | Nick Dearden
2013-11-27 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As UN climate negotiations rumbled on in Warsaw, big business came together with conservation groups in Edinburgh last week at the inaugural World Forum on Natural Capital to put a price on nature. The idea goes back to the Rio+20 conference in 2012, when a group of investors drafted the natural capital declaration. It argues that if we price everything nature gives us (wildlife, plants, forests, waterways, pollination, you name it), companies would think twice before destroying them. Like...
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