By Luke Pritchard As COP16 draws to a close, finance is urgently needed to ensure nature protections gets the finance it needs – with biodiversity markets in their infancy, voluntary carbon markets can bridge the gap, says Luke Pritchard Two years ago, global leaders committed to protecting 30 per cent of the world’s natural ecosystems by 2030 at COP15. As COP16 comes to a close, there remains a significant gap between ambition, action and the finance needed to deliver on this ‘30 by 30’ target. Nearly $7 trillion of public and private finance activities each year have a direct negative impact…