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Moreover, the reports will highlight the close links between biodiversity loss and climate change, which should be addressed simultaneously.
The world will not be able to meet the goals of the Paris agreement – or many of the SDGs, for that matter – unless it takes into account the state of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
This makes it difficult to address climate change or biodiversity losses in a holistic way.
This will be the first global overview of biodiversity and ecosystem services since the authoritative Millennium Ecosystem Assessment of 2005.
The success of efforts to reverse unsustainable uses of the world’s natural assets will require policymakers to reconsider the value of biodiversity for their people, environments, and economies.
By early next year, we will have the data on biodiversity and ecosystem services to prove it, and the policy options to change course.
The loss of biodiversity has already closed promising new avenues of medical research.
Indeed, the pace of biodiversity loss has accelerated, and we are rapidly entering what scientists are calling “the sixth wave of extinctions.”
But their challenge is made more difficult by nay-sayers who claim that fears about declining biodiversity are a tree-huggers' conspiracy to elevate Nature above people.
Nothing could be further from the truth: the threat to biodiversity can mean the loss of critical features of humanity's life-support systems, and therefore threatens our personal and economic well-being.
Those who maintain that the biodiversity crisis is manufactured, or at least over-hyped, often point to the sometimes exaggerated estimates of extinction rates that appear in the press.
Why care about the loss of biodiversity?
In natural and managed systems alike, biodiversity supplies us with food, with fiber, and with fuel.
As biodiversity shrivels, we lose a vast store of information and potential cures.
As we lose natural systems and biodiversity, we diminish our quality of life, threatening our existence.
As individuals, we ask, If others are not going to restrain their activities, why should I?Governments use the same logic, and this makes it difficult to agree upon effective biodiversity conventions to sustain vanishing resources.
For biodiversity loss, as with so many global environmental challenges, the problem is that the social costs are not captured in market prices.
To cite one example: because Costa Rica's government pays private landowners for biodiversity conservation and other ecosystem services, deforestation rates in that country have diminished dramatically.
Incentives that reinforce practices that preserve biodiversity must be applied at all levels if they are to influence individual actions and social norms.
Without collective action, we face a bleak future of disappearing biodiversity and a steadily declining quality of life.
For example, damage to ecosystems and biodiversity caused by current practices in the food and agriculture sector alone could cost the equivalent of 18% of global economic output by 2050, up from around 3% in 2008.
If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse-gas emissions, no poverty, and no biodiversity loss.
The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.
Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.
Science must point the way to more informed and integrated policy-making, including on climate change, biodiversity, ocean and coastal management, water and food scarcities, and planetary “boundaries” (the scientific thresholds that define a “safe operating space” for humanity).
This area, which contains perhaps the largest reservoir of biodiversity left on earth, is exploited by many countries, but managed by no one.
A series of UN General Assembly resolutions negotiated and adopted since 2004 have also set out regimes to protect the biodiversity of the deep seas.
That means that food production moves elsewhere, often to farmland created by cutting down forests, which releases more CO2 and damages biodiversity.
Moreover, by providing detailed information on biodiversity and the interactions within ecosystems, genomics is driving the development of innovative environmental-protection strategies.
In the talks leading up to the conference, a consensus has emerged that climate change is not only linked to many other major environmental problems (climate, water, soil, and biodiversity are all a part of the same system); it is also intertwined with social and economic challenges, like poverty, sustainable development, and the wellbeing of future generations.
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