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Governments could safeguard the world's biodiversity with a small fraction of the money they spend on environmentally harmful subsidies.

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  1. Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EP , UK

    Alexander N. James

  2. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK

    Kevin J. Gaston

  3. Department of Zoology University of Cambridge, Conservation Biology Group, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, Downing Street, UK

    Andrew Balmford

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James, A., Gaston, K. & Balmford, A. Balancing the Earth's accounts. Nature 401, 323–324 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/43774

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