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Connecting communities that protect their coasts can yield huge benefits but funding is not flowing to the right places.
New research finds urban trees can cut city heat almost in half, though unequal tree cover and rising temperatures mean greening alone will not shield cities from worsening climate extremes.
Green policy targets environmental outcomes, while industry and trade focus on jobs and growth. When misaligned, green efforts stall and competitiveness weakens.
Policy & Finance
Businesses can’t build resilience without nature strategies
Businesses must develop nature strategies and implement them swiftly to mitigate risks and build resilience in a changing world.
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20 June 2025
25 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Central banks must stem the nature crisis
24 February 2025
Carbon & Climate
Meltdown at the top of the world
12 January 2025
Policy & Finance
It’s time for a UN ‘universal declaration on nature’
20 December 2024
18 October 2024
Policy & Finance
Investments in nature will decide our future
14 October 2024
Carbon & Climate
Nature conservation is a public good, not a market
3 September 2024
Carbon & Climate
Three ways Pacific nations are adapting to climate change
29 January 2024
8 December 2023
Policy & Finance
Nature as infrastructure
30 October 2023
Carbon & Climate
The carbon-offset market’s broken promises
24 October 2023
Carbon & Climate
Climate solutions are already in our nature
22 September 2023
15 May 2023
10 April 2023
Carbon & Climate
In defence of nature-based carbon markets
21 March 2023
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