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How Much Is Nature Worth?

Legal Planet

When we drink a cool glass of water from the tap we may think of the local reservoir, but the real source of the water quality lies many miles upstream in the wooded watershed that filters and cleans the water as it flows downhill. Part of the challenge lies in collecting data. Not so much for loss of coastal wetlands.

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It is the time for nature: World Environment Day 2020

Manning Law

These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. These agreements form the only viable global roadmap to protecting the natural world that sustains us and lifting billions of people out of poverty.

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The Year in Water, 2021

Circle of Blue

The Colorado River water that cooled the plant is part of a broader legal impasse. Even as the global poverty rate rose for the first time in two decades and more people in developing countries were thrust into poverty, utilities proved more resilient than expected. What Happens with the Colorado River Water It Used? Brett Walton.

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