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Putting a dollar value on nature will give governments and businesses more reasons to protect it

  • Written by Linda J. Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Finance, Harvard Kennedy School
imageSunrise over Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota.NPS/Flickr

President Joe Biden calls climate change “the existential crisis of our time” and has taken steps to curb it that match those words. They include returning the U.S. to the Paris Agreement; creating a new climate Cabinet position; introducing a plan to slash fossil...

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