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business reporter Gareth Hutchens

Economics has helped to destroy the environment. Can it be used to save it?

Australia is on the verge of having the world's first national accounting system that tracks the health of a country's natural environment, according to former Treasury secretary Ken Henry.

It may help to solve one of the most urgent problems facing humanity: how to reverse global environmental destruction. 

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