The @IPBES #PandemicsReport experts estimate the cost of reducing risks to prevent pandemics to be 100 times less than the cost of responding to such pandemics, providing strong economic incentives for #TransformativeChange🦠 @RHarrabin via @BBCNews bbc.com/news/science-environ…

Aug 16, 2021 · 2:24 PM UTC

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Yes! The chair of that panel went on to estimate in @NewsfromScience that reducing 40% of the deforestation that fuels #pandemic risk, involving expansion of #Indigenous Peoples' land rights, would cost $8.1 billion a year less than paying off the actors driving #deforestation.