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New measures of success needed to avoid catastrophic breakdown, landmark review findsWhat does the UK’s biodiversity review recommend?The world is being put at “extreme risk” by the failure of economics to take account of the rapid depletion of the natural world and needs to find new measures of success to avoid a catastrophic breakdown, a landmark review has concluded.Prosperity was coming at a “devastating...

Exclusive: analysis finds countries pouring money into fossil fuels to fight recessionThe prospect of a global green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is hanging in the balance, as countries pour money into the fossil fuel economy to stave off a devastating recession, an analysis for the Guardian reveals.Meanwhile, promises of a low-carbon boost are failing to materialise. Only a handful of major countries are...