Stark warnings on biodiversity loss
Today will see official admission of international failure to stem the tide of biodiversity loss. This will surprise few in the scientific community who have been warning for many years that key natural resources are undervalued and neglected to a dangerous degree. However it is hoped that the stark warnings to emanate from the Convention on Biodiversity’s third report will galvanise sustained and improved support for natural systems, including biodiversity, which underpin our economic activity and wellbeing. There are renewed calls for biodiversity to be accorded the same prominence in global politics as climate change.
The Society of Biology is a partner in the Natural Capital Initiative which promotes an ecosystem approach to valuing and deriving benefit from natural systems. We are also partners in the IYB-UK, the UK’s arm of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010.
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