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UK pledges $4 billion to nature and biodiversity protection

FILE PHOTO: A man jogs at Southsea in southern England March 13, 2007. Britain on Tuesday became the first country to propose legislation setting binding limits on greenhouse gases as it stepped up its campaign for a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN)

Britain will allocate 3 billion pounds ($4 billion) over five years to projects aimed at protecting and restoring nature and biodiversity, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.

The money will come from an existing commitment of 11.6 billion pounds for international climate finance.

“We will not achieve our goals on climate change, sustainable development or preventing pandemics if we fail to take care of the natural world that provides us with the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe," Johnson said in a statement.

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Estelle Shirbon)

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