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What is a unit of nature? New framework highlights challenges for biodiversity credit market

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ecologists have devised a new framework for classifying how biodiversity credit operators define units of nature. New analysis shows the challenges involved in devising a biodiversity credit market to finance nature restoration, and the risks of over-reliance on ‘offsets’. Nature conservation faces an estimated $700 billion annual funding gap to halt and begin reversing global biodiversity…