co-benefits . Protecting hotspots also helps protect important ecosystem services. In a global ranking of areas that combine biodiversity conservation while maximising carbon retention and water quality regulation, for example, the terrestrial and freshwater hotspots assessed here ranked high  . The solutions needed to reverse biodiversity decline are well known and articulated in numerous international agreements and goals, such as the Convention of Biological Diversity the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, the Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement, the International Union for Nature Conservation's Bonn Restoration Challenge and the Ramsar Convention on
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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