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The business of biodiversity

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The value of ecosystems is largely invisible to markets. Ricardo Bayon and Michael Jenkins call on governments to drive regulatory and voluntary economic instruments that put a price on the services that nature provides.

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  1. Ricardo Bayon is a partner and co-founder of EKO Asset Management Partners, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, 29th floor, New York 10019, New York, USA. rbayon@ekoamp.com,

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  2. Michael Jenkins is president of Forest Trends, 1050 Potomac Street Northwest, Washington DC 20007-3517, USA. mjenkins@foresttrends.org,

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Bayon, R., Jenkins, M. The business of biodiversity. Nature 466, 184–185 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466184a

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