Richer Nations 'Should Compensate Poorer Ones For Biodiversity Loss'
The Guardian|May 30, 2023
Wealthy countries should pay for the loss and damage they cause to nature in poorer countries in the same way as for climate impacts, researchers have argued.
Phoebe Weston
Richer Nations 'Should Compensate Poorer Ones For Biodiversity Loss'

At the Cop27 climate talks in November, world leaders agreed to a dedicated "loss and damage" fund providing financial assistance to poor nations stricken by climate disaster.

More developed countries, which are largely responsible for driving climate breakdown, are to pay compensation to poorer nations, which are typically more vulnerable to its impacts.

Now researchers are arguing that a similar fund should be created for nature loss. This is because habitat loss and overexploitation of resources in poor countries is driven by consumption in the global north, researchers argue in a comment piece published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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