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How biodiversity loss could raise borrowing costs and deepen debt risks worldwide
- June 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Financial markets are blind to the economic costs of biodiversity loss, leaving several countries at risk of defaulting on debt, according to new research published in Nature. While environmental degradation is recognized as a serious financial risk, sovereign debt markets currently have no way of accounting for it, leaving US$83 trillion in assets open to mispricing.
Originally published at Phys.org