First global assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services says trend can be reversed, but only with co-ordinated international effort
Around the world, nature and the benefits it provides are in unprecedented decline -- a trend that can be reversed, but only with a co-ordinated international effort and “transformative change” to the way humans draw food, water, energy and resources from the planet, a sweeping new report has found.
Assembled by 145 authors from 50 countries, the report is based on a review of approximately 15,000 scientific and government publications, with the aim of identifying key drivers to species and habitat loss and pathways to addressing those losses.
The briefing followed a week-long negotiation period during which member countries wrangled over the final wording of the report’s executive summary for policymakers.
He added that global efforts to address biodiversity loss are likely to fall short without an approach that tackles several simultaneous but interlocking global challenges at the same time, all related to the economics of how humans use the planet.
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