A new report from, amongst others, the UN Environment Programme and the World Economic Forum has concluded that if we have a chance of meeting the increasingly tough climate and nature targets governments are setting, we’re going to need to increase investment sharply, and soon.
As Justin Adams, Director of Nature-based solutions at the World Economic Forum explains, we’re going to need to triple the $133b annually invested in nature-based solutions by 2030 if we have any chance of saving the planet.
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Justin Adams is the Director of Nature-Based Solutions at the World Economic forum.
Before that, he worked as a Senior Advisor to the World Bank and to the Duke of Westminster’s new agricultural fund, Wheatsheaf Investments, and was also a senior executive at BP for 10 years where he helped to build its $8 billion renewables division, Alternative Energy.
Justin is a Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
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