Unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, have combined and increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods and well-being around the world. Biodiversity loss and climate change are both driven by human economic activities and mutually reinforce each other. Neither will be successfully resolved unless both are tackled together. This is the message […]
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
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IPBES: Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’
May 6, 2019 -Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the summary of which was approved at […]