TRACEY DAVIES: Valuing our debt to nature
The Dasgupta review recommends assigning monetary worth to natural assets. It cannot be ignored
11 February 2021 - 05:00
The launch last week of the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity was a quietly significant moment for the planet.
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, a Cambridge economist, was commissioned in 2019 by the UK treasury to write the review: the first time any national finance ministry has commissioned a report on the economic importance of nature...
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