Biodiversity
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Given the current trajectory of global fossil-fuel use, the planet's temperature is likely to rise by 4-6 degrees Celsius above its pre-industrial level, an increase that would be catastrophic for food production, human health, and biodiversity; indeed, in many parts of the world, it would threaten communities' survival.
Instead of single-mindedly trying to force people to do without carbon-emitting fuels, the Hartwell group suggests that we pursue a number of other worthy goals – for example, adaptation, reforestation, encouraging biodiversity, and improving air quality – each of which is important, and all of which may also reduce carbon emissions.
With its rich biodiversity, Costa Rica has also demonstrated far-sighted environmental leadership by pursuing reforestation, designating a third of the country protected natural reserves, and deriving almost all of its electricity from clean hydro power.
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean, and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting
biodiversity.
The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious
biodiversity.
At the global level, the world’s governments should finally understand that the treaties that they have all signed in recent years on climate, environment, and
biodiversity
are at least as important to global security as all of the war zones and crisis hotspots that grab the headlines, budgets, and attention.
That, in turn, implies less human encroachment into natural ecosystems, enabling greater
biodiversity.
Make no mistake: Glacier-water mining has major environmental costs in terms of
biodiversity
loss, impairment of some ecosystem services due to insufficient runoff water, and potential depletion or degradation of glacial springs.
The powerful advanced-economy lobbies that have shaped that regime clearly put the latter first, reflected in their opposition to provisions recognizing intellectual property rights associated with traditional knowledge or
biodiversity.
Governments have set their sights on securing an ABS regime by 2010, which is also the deadline, agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, to reduce substantially the rate of loss of
biodiversity.
We must become equally committed to reversing the rate of
biodiversity
loss.
Many other components of marine
biodiversity
– especially corals, marine mammals, seabirds, and turtles – are also struggling to withstand human pressures.
Meeting it will require overcoming one of the most intractable obstacles to marine conservation: ensuring the sustainability of
biodiversity
in the roughly 60% of the world’s oceans that lie beyond the jurisdiction of individual states.
At present, a web of legislation – including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines, and the Fish Stocks Agreement, as well as the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals – governs activities that may affect
biodiversity
on the high seas.
One promising step, recommended by a UN working group in January, is the development of a new, legally binding agreement on high-seas biodiversity, to be ready for the UN General Assembly to review by September.
Moreover, more impact assessments are needed to ensure that road, rail, and waterway projects do not destroy livelihoods or nearby ecosystems, leading to further greenhouse-gas emissions and a loss of vital
biodiversity.
Surprisingly, it is parasites that will disappear in the greatest numbers, because parasites represent the vast majority of Earth's
biodiversity.
So when we take strides to preserve biodiversity, we should not forget the parasites that live inside endangered hosts, like the ones that lived in Miss Waldron's Red Colobus.
For there are practical reasons to preserve biodiversity, and they apply to parasites just as much as to their hosts.
Their rainforests are a vast storehouse of biodiversity, and forests are major carbon sinks, reducing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Now, as this latest IPCC report makes clear, rising temperature is the new threat to both
biodiversity
and our economy.
Not only would this reduce hunger by increasing food production and lowering food prices; it would also protect biodiversity, because higher crop productivity would mean less deforestation.
Indeed, agriculture is also a leading cause of
biodiversity
loss –& and thus loss of ecosystem services supplied to farming and other human enterprises – as well as a principal source of global toxification.
Despite dire predictions, no adverse effects of GM crops on health, biodiversity, and the environment have been documented to date.
The Himalayas are now subject to accelerated glacial thaw, climatic instability, and
biodiversity
loss.
Unsurprisingly, this is causing
biodiversity
loss and impairment of ecosystem services.
It should also be used to avoid deforestation and to protect fragile resources, including oceans and
biodiversity.
The cause of this great acceleration in the loss of the planet’s
biodiversity
is clear: rapidly expanding human activity, driven by worsening overpopulation and increasing per capita consumption.
This required a huge amount of energy, and when the well blew, it was far harder to contain, causing large-scale, ongoing damage to the
biodiversity
of the Gulf and the adjacent shorelines, as well as to numerous local economies.
For example, measurements of GDP currently neglect the costs of natural-resource replacement, pollution, and the destruction of
biodiversity.
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