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Here are six charts from the report, which explain the extent of nature loss and what can be done to achieve the goal of becoming nature positive. 1. A two-thirds drop in abundance. If we are unable to limit warming to 1.5°C, climate change is likely to become the dominant cause of biodiversity loss in the coming decades. Image: WWF.
Biodiversity loss was ranked as the third most severe threat humanity will face in the next 10 years in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2022. Five key transitions in the global economy could have a dramatic impact in slowing the loss of biodiversity, while bringing trillions of dollars of new economic opportunities and creating ...
Worldwide, the impact is so large that wild mammals declined as a share of the global mammal biomass from 17% in 1900, to just 4% in 2015. Humans and livestock account for the remaining 96%. The world’s impact on nature is clearly large, but so is the world’s dependence upon it. Roughly 60% of global GDP is at least moderately dependent on ...
Biodiversity loss: a top-5 global risk. The scale and pace of the decline is why the danger to biodiversity from human activity is listed in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report as one of the top five risks over the next 10 years. In partnership with Zurich Insurance Group and Marsh & McLennan, the report surveyed more than 800 ...
The underlying drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss are different, though the line between policy to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss is not always so distinct. The blurring of lines between climate and biodiversity policy is seen at sea, particularly in coastal areas where mangrove forests, coral gardens or saltmarshes ...
Biodiversity loss is one of the biggest risks facing the world over the next 10 years, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2023. Nature is vital to our health and well-being – and a source of medicine, with more than 40% of pharmaceutical formulations derived from natural sources. From creating the oxygen we breathe ...
The implications of biodiversity loss are now gaining prominence too. With average wildlife populations having shrunk by 69% since 1970, scientists believe the planet is in the midst of a mass extinction event. Such loss of biodiversity risks causing the collapse of the natural ecosystems that humanity relies upon to thrive, and to survive.
Innovative solutions are helping to tackle biodiversity decline, but many more are needed, alongside the support and financing that will help them to scale. A new UpLink innovation challenge calling for solutions that promote the conservation, protection, and restoration of biodiversity will launch this week. The concept of biodiversity may be ...
Here's why biodiversity matters to jobs, health and the economy: Biodiversity ensures health and food security. Millions of species work together to provide us with the large array of fruits, vegetables and animal products essential for a healthy, balanced diet. Three crops – wheat, corn and rice – provide almost 60% of total plant-based ...
1. Biodiversity ensures health and food security. Biodiversity underpins global nutrition and food security. Millions of species work together to provide us with a large array of fruits, vegetables and animal products essential to a healthy, balanced diet – but they are increasingly under threat.