
Trees and bees can impact a country’s credit rating
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How Biodiversity Can Affect a Country's Credit Rating
For the first time ever, a new report quantified how bio diversity related matters can affect a country's creditworthiness. The researchers looked at three different scenarios: statusco, business as usual and partial nature collapse. Close to 58 % of all countries would see their credit ratings drop by awoping six notches on a 20 point scale. Governments will have to spend an additional 20 dollars to 53 billion dollars in annual interest payments. A bad credit rating effects companies operating within those nations too.
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