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Diversitas Archive
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Escaping the ‘Era of Pandemics’: experts warn worse crises to come; offer options to reduce risk
Posted on October 29, 2020 | No CommentsIPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Highlights: Intergovernmental council on pandemic prevention; risk drivers include deforestation, wildlife trade; tax high pandemic-risk activities; 540,000 – 850,000 unknown […] -
Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report
Posted on September 15, 2020 | No CommentsUN Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines 8 major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature’s accelerating decline Final report card on Aichi Biodiversity Targets, set […] -
Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’
Posted on May 6, 2019 | No CommentsIPBES, Bonn (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Current global response insufficient; ‘transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature; opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public […] -
Worsening worldwide land degradation now ‘critical,’ undermining well-being of 3.2 billion people
Posted on March 26, 2018 | No CommentsIPBES, Bonn 26 March, 2018 Main cause of species loss; driver of the migration of millions of people by 2050 In landmark 3-year assessment report, 100+ experts outline costs, dangers […] -
Pollinators Vital to Our Food Supply Under Threat
Posted on February 26, 2016 | No CommentsIPBES, Bonn / Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia 26 Feb 2016 Assessment Details Options for Safeguarding Pollinators Kuala Lumpur – 26 February, 2016 – […] -
Beyond GDP: Experts preview ‘Inclusive Wealth’ index at Planet under Pressure conference
Posted on March 28, 2012 | No CommentsEarth System Science Partnership, Paris 28-Mar-2012 Brazil and India pay a high price for rapid economic growth, according to experts speaking at a major international meeting in London, Planet Under […] -
Cities forecast to expand by area equal to France, Germany and Spain combined in less than 20 years
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsEarth System Science Partnership, Paris 27-Mar-2012 Unless development patterns change, by 2030 humanity’s urban footprint will occupy an additional 1.5 million square kilometres – comparable to the combined territories of […] -
Top priorities in biodiversity science agreed: Paris-based DIVERSITAS to spearhead global investigation into the ‘5 Ws’ of biodiversity loss and how to mitigate it
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsDIVERSITAS, Paris 26-Mar-2012 Concluding a four-year global consultation, international experts have agreed on key efforts needed to reduce the on-going loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. On Day 2 […] -
State of the Planet: Scientists describe humanity’s global impact as ‘The Great Acceleration’ and offer ominous outlook: An uncertain future on a much hotter world
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsEarth System Science Partnership, Paris 26-Mar-2012 Time is running out to minimize the risk of setting in motion irreversible and long-term climate change and other dramatic changes to Earth’s life […] -
Put Government Policy Options Through a Science Test First, Leading Biodiversity Experts Urge
Posted on February 17, 2011 | No CommentsDiversitas, Paris 17-Feb-2011 How should a new ‘IPCC for biodiversity’ work? Leading world scientists offer prescription In the journal Science this week, leading scientists say the new “IPCC for biodiversity” […] -
Continuing biodiversity loss predicted but could be slowed
Posted on November 2, 2010 | No CommentsDiversitas Paris, France Common approach urged to unify global biodiversity advice. A new analysis of several major global studies of future species shifts and losses foresees inevitable continuing decline of […] -
Report casts world’s rivers in ‘crisis state’
Posted on September 29, 2010 | No CommentsDIVERSITAS, Paris 29 Sep 2009 The world’s rivers are in a crisis of ominous proportions, according to a new global analysis to be published Sept. 30 in the journal Nature. The […] -
World will miss 2010 target to stem biodiversity loss, experts say
Posted on October 22, 2009 | No CommentsDIVERSITAS, Paris 11-Oct-2009 Growing water needs, mismanagement leading to ‘catastrophic decline’ in freshwater biodiversity The world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year, according to […] -
What are Coral Reef Services Worth? $130,000 to $1.2 Million per Hectare, per Year: Experts
Posted on October 16, 2009 | No CommentsDiversitas, Paris Economists, assigning values to ‘ecosystem services,’ report staggering totals and rates of return on investment Experts concluding the global DIVERSITAS biodiversity conference today in Cape Town described preliminary […] -
Valuing biodiversity services, including its insurance against disease
Posted on October 5, 2005 | No Comments25 Oct 05 DIVERSITAS, Paris By diluting the pool of virus targets and hosts, biodiversity reduces their impact on humans and provides a form of global health insurance, biodiversity experts […]