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And on coral reefs, where some of the main framework organisms disappear, we will see a major loss of marine biodiversity.
TJ: I would still want to know that you could do that and get below zero by the end of the century, in terms of taking carbon out of the atmosphere, and solve the problem of biodiversity and reduce the impact on land use and do something about the erosion of topsoils and the quality of water.
Healthy sub-populations of birds, increasing biodiversity generally.
Seamounts are important for biodiversity.
If the world continues on its current trajectory, global temperatures will eventually rise by several degrees centigrade, causing higher sea levels, mega-storms, severe heat waves, massive crop failures, extreme droughts, heavy flooding, and a sharp loss of biodiversity.
Bhutan is also asking how economic growth can be combined with environmental sustainability – a question that it has answered in part through a massive effort to protect the country’s vast forest cover and its unique biodiversity.
China’s environmental activists, meanwhile, have focused on the “politically safe” issues of protecting biodiversity, recycling, and environmental education.
They still raise traditional issues of biodiversity loss, destruction of sites of natural beauty and cultural importance, and social justice issues surrounding resettlement.
And last year, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared that our research into biodiversity was the reason for quadrupling the size of a marine reserve off his country’s coast.
In each of these projects, experts wrote dozens of research papers examining how best to spend resources on a variety of issues, from armed conflict and biodiversity destruction to infectious disease and sanitation.
Latin American countries in the Amazon region, for example, are home to what can rightly be considered the world’s storehouse of biodiversity.
But bottling the runoff from glaciers in the Alps, the Andes, the Arctic, the Cascades, the Himalayas, Patagonia, the Rockies, and elsewhere is not much better, as it diverts that water from ecosystem services like recharging wetlands and sustaining biodiversity.
But weaker oversight by the World Bank would leave loan recipients to monitor and enforce environmental and social standards themselves – regardless of their resources or political will to do so –thus jeopardizing efforts to defend the rights of indigenous peoples, resettle displaced people, mitigate environmental damage, or protect forests and biodiversity.
Such compulsory licensing is a big cause of the global destruction of biodiversity.
Economists’ estimates range from $1.23 billion a year (to save trees in Latin America’s biodiversity “hot spots”) to $5.8 billion a year (to save 2% of the continent’s land area) to $500 billion (making a one-off payment to save all of Latin America’s forests).
While the economic benefits we get from biodiversity might seem intangible, they are real and quantifiable.
One common argument is that governments should protect biodiversity because of its untapped potential for the pharmaceutical industry.
Although the Merck project successfully raised money for Costa Rican biodiversity research, few if any drugs have been developed, and the model has not been transferred elsewhere.
A lot more research needs to be done to establish the true costs and benefits of protecting forest ecosystems and biodiversity.
Yet they render invaluable services, in terms of preservation of agro- and biodiversity, local communities’ resilience to price shocks or weather-related events, and environmental conservation.
Europeans consumers' growing awareness of their rights and farmers' increasing fear of dependence on multinational companies are symptoms of a deeper concern about values and priorities: the type of environment we want, the role of biodiversity, our tolerance for risk, and the price we are prepared to pay for regulation.
Combining environmental and developmental frameworks is a good idea – one that builds on the success of a host of legally binding international conventions and agreements crafted under the UN’s auspices to protect the climate, conserve biodiversity, uphold human rights, and reduce poverty.
Our lives, and those of all other creatures on this planet, are both part of and dependent on biodiversity.
Simply put, biodiversity is the web of life, including all organisms found in every habitat, from the fish of the deep oceans to the birds of the tropical rainforests and everything in between.
Plant and fungal diversity lies at the very foundation of biodiversity, and on them all other life depends.
Our generation faces biodiversity loss on a massive scale.
In fact, there is no technical reason why a species should go extinct, and great achievements in protecting biodiversity are being made.
The major meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity taking place in Nagoya, Japan, from October 18-29, is an opportunity in this regard, and we at Kew are hopeful for positive outcomes in terms of international agreements in the key areas of biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and access, and benefit-sharing.
Meanwhile, at the national level, it is essential that biodiversity conservation is “mainstreamed,” becoming an integral part of government policy and sustainable management practices worldwide.
It has been argued that much biodiversity has been lost as a result of a lack of understanding of its true value.
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