Encouraging Resilience
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The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is home to over 350 scientists whose mission is to halt biodiversity loss and to protect plants and fungi for people and planet.
Kew's patron, HRH The Prince of Wales, brought leaders from the business community to the Royal Botanic Gardens so they could hear first-hand from some of these experts about their work in areas like crop resilience and tracking sustainably sourced materials.
The biodiversity crisis is inextricably interlinked with the climate crisis, and Kew's mission is critical to our understanding of the impact of the changes to our environment and finding solutions to the challenges we face.
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