... sectors could result in halving the projected global loss of biodiversity, up to 2050. This was calculated by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in close cooperation with LEI ...
The world risks losing new medical treatments for cancer, osteoporosis and other ailments if it does not act quickly to conserve the planet's biodiversity, a senior U.N. environment official said.
... argue, could “avert an otherwise predictable catastrophic loss of biodiversity.” Pro-active conservation programs ... in light of the government’s stated commitment to protect its biodiversity. This political interest, sparked by a 2003 presidential ...
... is available in German. Bonn/Berlin. What will the loss of biodiversity cost us in the long term ... , who stand to suffer the most from the loss of so-called ecosystemic services. Preserving biodiversity is thus necessary ...
... have the opportunity and the obligation to halt and reverse the rate of loss of biodiversity and ensure sharks and rays are exploited ... Laboratory in Lowestoft, UK. “The current rate of biodiversity loss is ten to a hundred times greater ...
... political commitment, Europe is struggling to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Forests cover roughly ... in Europe. Any initiative designed to halt the biodiversity loss in Europe must consequently take ...
... change, it is the world's poor who are most at risk from the continuing loss of biodiversity. They are the ones most reliant on the ecosystem services which are being undermined ... presents the results of a preliminary analysis of the costs of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services from forests. In the first ...
Why the loss of biodiversity and abandonment of ecology-friendly farming undermine attempts to feed the world.
... change, declines in freshwater availability and quality, and loss of biodiversity. According to Donald Kennedy, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and past president of Stanford ...
... of temperature increase that would lead to widespread loss of biodiversity, deglaciation and other adverse consequences in nature ... °F) as the threshold at which society commits the planet to biodiversity loss and deglaciation in areas such as Greenland and the Himalayas ...
... changes in the environment brought on by climate change, losses of biodiversity, pollution of air and water, and overharvesting ... Goals and treaties to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. Clearly, global ...
... , the tide of destruction will continue, causing catastrophic loss of biodiversity, widespread poverty and economic crisis.' While the MA provided a baseline of where society ...
... change will cause Europe to lose much of its biodiversity as projected by a comprehensive study on future butterfly ... on the chances to come nearer to the target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 set by the EU Heads ...
... alter its ecological relationships. "That would be a tragic loss for biodiversity in one of the last truly wild places on earth," says Aronson. "Unless we can get control of ship ...
... ? Besides obvious direct impacts of pathogens and losses to biodiversity, disrupted ecosystems also lose resilience ... that people derive from the biophysical environment – and analyzes biodiversity change in terms of its impacts on the things that people ...
