World Biodiversity Council calls for far-reaching changes
Published: Wednesday, Dec 18th 2024, 15:20
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In a new report, the World Biodiversity Council (IPBES) calls for fundamental changes in the economy and society. According to the Council, so-called transformative change is necessary to halt and reverse the global loss of biodiversity.
Such transformative change is difficult but possible, the more than 100 experts from 42 countries stated in the report published on Wednesday.
Among other things, they identified the overuse of natural resources and the alienation of humans and nature as the cause of biodiversity loss. Existing economic models and prevailing ways of thinking are therefore perpetuating the problems.
"We now have broad-based evidence that the loss of nature and biodiversity is caused by fundamental structural problems that pervade our societies," commented Mialy Rann Andriamahefazafy from the University of Geneva, who was involved in the report, according to a statement from the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).
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