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United Kingdom should learn from global body for biodiversity

  1. Victor Anderson

    1. Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

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  2. Aled Jones

    1. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

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  3. Rupert Read

    1. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

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It is a shame that debates on biodiversity policy are much narrower in some countries than those fuelled by the wide range of voices in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES; see Nature 560, 423–425; 2018). The United Kingdom, for instance, retains the model of natural science in alliance with economists who specialize in the monetary valuation of ‘pieces of natural capital’. The nation must learn from IPBES if it is to address crucial aspects of biodiversity loss.

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Nature 562, 39 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06892-2

Competing Interests

The authors currently have a funding application being considered by the AHRC for further work in this area. Also, Victor Anderson and Rupert Read are both unpaid members of Green House, an environmental policy think-tank.

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