Bridging the Biodiversity Finance Gap: Green Finance as a Catalyst for Global Sustainable Development

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By Deborah Lehr as featured on Yicai

The global community faces a critical juncture: biodiversity loss is no longer just an environmental issue; it is a core economic and development challenge. Biodiversity underpins ecosystem services vital to human survival, including food security, disease control, and climate stability. However, driven by a combination of perverse subsidies, poor policies, and climate change, biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate.