Nature as critical infrastructure: redesigning how the UK invests in what it depends on

While the UK’s biodiversity frameworks are world-leading, their outcomes are not. New evidence shows that the country is on track to meet just three of its 23 national biodiversity targets, and cases like the contamination of Lough Neagh show the reality of environmental damage. This lacklustre performance is due not to a deficit of ambition but to a fundamental misdiagnosis – and correcting it requires treating nature as what it is: critical economic infrastructure, argues Nicola Ranger in this commentary for Earth Capital Nexus.

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