<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px">Land management practitioners understand the value of natural areas and often get asked to defend and argue for their protection. Arguments range from their value to biodiversity to the ecosystem services they provide to humans. However, these points are not necessarily persuasive to decision makers. </span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><span style="color:rgb(86,159,69);line-height:14px"><strong><br></strong></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><span style="line-height:14px"><strong style=""><font color="#38761d">How Do Natural Areas Affect Financial Markets?</font> </strong></span><font color="#000000">will explore one of the economic benefits of natural areas and, specifically, how nature conservation can impact financial markets. Claudio Rizzi, Ph.D., finds robust evidence that nature’s mitigation role against extreme weather translates into a decrease in borrowing costs for counties in the United States.</font></span></span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b>Tuesday, July 25, 2023</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b>12:00 pm Eastern/11:00 am Central/10:00 am Mountain/9:00 am Pacific</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">THIS WEBINAR IS COMPLIMENTARY FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><b style=""><a href="https://www.naturalareas.org/natural_areas_affect_financial_markets.php" style=""><font color="#38761d">LEARN MORE</font><font color="#000000"> </font></a><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#38761d"> <a href="https://members.naturalareas.org/members/evr/reg_event.php?orgcode=AREA&evid=36451939" style=""><font color="#38761d">REGISTER HERE</font></a></font></b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><img src="cid:ii_ljyc4z0d0" alt="image.png" width="472" height="182"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:19px"><span style="line-height:14px"><br></span></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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