Electric current global response bereft;
'Transformative changes' needed to restore and protect nature;
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public expert
Nigh comprehensive assessment of its kind;
ane,000,000 species threatened with extinction

PARIS, half dozen May – Nature is failing 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 the 7th session of the IPBES Plenary, coming together last week (29 Apr – iv May) in Paris.

"The overwhelming testify of the IPBES Global Assessment, from a broad range of different fields of knowledge, presents an ominous picture," said IPBES Chair, Sir Robert Watson. "The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, nutrient security, health and quality of life worldwide."

"The Report likewise tells united states of america that information technology is not too late to make a deviation, but but if we start now at every level from local to global," he said. "Through 'transformative change', nature can still exist conserved, restored and used sustainably – this is also central to meeting most other global goals. By transformative modify, we mean a central, organisation-wide reorganization beyond technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values."

"The member States of IPBES Plenary have now acknowledged that, past its very nature, transformative change tin wait opposition from those with interests vested in the status quo, simply besides that such opposition can be overcome for the broader public good," Watson said.

The IPBES Global Cess Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is the well-nigh comprehensive always completed. It is the outset intergovernmental Report of its kind and builds on the landmark Millennium Ecosystem Cess of 2005, introducing innovative ways of evaluating evidence.

Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past 3 years, with inputs from another 310 contributing authors, the Report assesses changes over the past 5 decades, providing a comprehensive film of the relationship between economic evolution pathways and their impacts on nature. It too offers a range of possible scenarios for the coming decades.

Based on the systematic review of about 15,000 scientific and government sources, the Report also draws (for the first time ever at this scale) on indigenous and local knowledge, especially addressing issues relevant to Ethnic Peoples and Local Communities.

"Biodiversity and nature's contributions to people are our common heritage and humanity's nearly important life-supporting 'safety net'. But our condom net is stretched nigh to breaking point," said Prof. Sandra Díaz (Argentine republic), who co-chaired the Assessment with Prof. Josef Settele (Germany) and Prof. Eduardo S. Brondízio (Brazil and USA).

"The diverseness within species, betwixt species and of ecosystems, likewise as many central contributions nosotros derive from nature, are declining fast, although we notwithstanding have the means to ensure a sustainable hereafter for people and the planet."

The Report finds that around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than than ever before in human history.

The boilerplate abundance of native species in well-nigh major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20%, mostly since 1900. More than than xl% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened. The motion picture is less clear for insect species, but bachelor evidence supports a tentative estimate of 10% beingness threatened. At least 680 vertebrate species had been driven to extinction since the 16th century and more than 9% of all domesticated breeds of mammals used for food and agriculture had get extinct past 2016, with at least one,000 more than breeds still threatened.

"Ecosystems, species, wild populations, local varieties and breeds of domesticated plants and animals are shrinking, deteriorating or vanishing. The essential, interconnected spider web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed," said Prof. Settele. "This loss is a directly result of man activity and constitutes a direct threat to human well-being in all regions of the world."

To increment the policy-relevance of the Report, the cess's authors have ranked, for the first time at this scale and based on a thorough analysis of the available bear witness, the five direct drivers of change in nature with the largest relative global impacts and so far. These culprits are, in descending order: (ane) changes in country and ocean use; (2) direct exploitation of organisms; (3) climate change; (four) pollution and (five) invasive alien species.

The Written report notes that, since 1980, greenhouse gas emissions have doubled, raising average global temperatures by at least 0.7 degrees Celsius – with climate change already impacting nature from the level of ecosystems to that of genetics – impacts expected to increment over the coming decades, in some cases surpassing the impact of state and sea apply alter and other drivers.

Despite progress to conserve nature and implement policies, the Report also finds that global goals for conserving and sustainably using nature and achieving sustainability cannot be met past current trajectories, and goals for 2030 and across may only be accomplished through transformative changes across economical, social, political and technological factors. With good progress on components of only four of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets, it is likely that most volition exist missed by the 2020 deadline. Current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards eighty% (35 out of 44) of the assessed targets of the Sustainable Evolution Goals, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans and country (SDGs ane, 2, iii, vi, 11, 13, 14 and 15). Loss of biodiversity is therefore shown to be not only an environmental issue, but as well a developmental, economic, security, social and moral issue also.

"To improve understand and, more importantly, to address the main causes of damage to biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, we need to understand the history and global interconnection of complex demographic and economical indirect drivers of change, as well equally the social values that underpin them," said Prof. Brondízio. "Key indirect drivers include increased population and per capita consumption; technological innovation, which in some cases has lowered and in other cases increased the impairment to nature; and, critically, issues of governance and accountability. A pattern that emerges is one of global interconnectivity and 'telecoupling' – with resources extraction and production ofttimes occurring in one part of the globe to satisfy the needs of afar consumers in other regions."

Other notable findings of the Report include:

  • Three-quarters of the state-based environment and about 66% of the marine surround accept been significantly altered by human actions. On average these trends have been less astringent or avoided in areas held or managed by Ethnic Peoples and Local Communities.
  • More a third of the earth'south land surface and virtually 75% of freshwater resources are now devoted to crop or livestock production.
  • The value of agricultural crop production has increased past well-nigh 300% since 1970, raw timber harvest has risen by 45% and approximately 60 billion tons of renewable and nonrenewable resources are now extracted globally every year – having nearly doubled since 1980.
  • Country degradation has reduced the productivity of 23% of the global land surface, upwardly to US$577 billion in annual global crops are at risk from pollinator loss and 100-300 million people are at increased risk of floods and hurricanes because of loss of coastal habitats and protection.
  • In 2015, 33% of marine fish stocks were beingness harvested at unsustainable levels; 60% were maximally sustainably fished, with just seven% harvested at levels lower than what tin be sustainably fished.
  • Urban areas have more than doubled since 1992.
  • Plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980, 300-400 meg tons of heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge and other wastes from industrial facilities are dumped annually into the globe's waters, and fertilizers entering littoral ecosystems take produced more than 400 ocean 'expressionless zones', totalling more than 245,000 km2 (591-595) – a combined area greater than that of the Uk.
  • Negative trends in nature volition continue to 2050 and across in all of the policy scenarios explored in the Report, except those that include transformative alter – due to the projected impacts of increasing land-employ change, exploitation of organisms and climate change, although with meaning differences between regions.

The Report likewise presents a broad range of illustrative actions for sustainability and pathways for achieving them beyond and betwixt sectors such as agriculture, forestry, marine systems, freshwater systems, urban areas, energy, finance and many others. It highlights the importance of, among others, adopting integrated management and cross-sectoral approaches that accept into account the trade-offs of food and free energy production, infrastructure, freshwater and coastal management, and biodiversity conservation.

As well identified as a key element of more sustainable future policies is the evolution of global fiscal and economical systems to build a global sustainable economy, steering abroad from the current express paradigm of economic growth.

"IPBES presents the authoritative science, knowledge and the policy options to decision-makers for their consideration," said IPBES Executive Secretarial assistant, Dr. Anne Larigauderie. "We thank the hundreds of experts, from around the globe, who accept volunteered their time and knowledge to help address the loss of species, ecosystems and genetic diversity – a truly global and generational threat to human well-being."

Further Information on Key Issues from the Report

Scale of Loss of Nature

  • Gains from societal and policy responses, while important, have non stopped massive losses.
  • Since 1970, trends in agricultural production, fish harvest, bioenergy production and harvest of materials have increased, in response to population growth, rising demand and technological evolution, this has come up at a steep price, which has been unequally distributed within and beyond countries. Many other key indicators of nature'due south contributions to people still, such as soil organic carbon and pollinator diversity, take declined, indicating that gains in material contributions are oft not sustainable .
  • The pace of agricultural expansion into intact ecosystems has varied from country to country. Losses of intact ecosystems accept occurred primarily in the tropics, home to the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet. For example, 100 1000000 hectares of tropical forest were lost from 1980 to 2000, resulting mainly from cattle ranching in Latin America (about 42 one thousand thousand hectares) and plantations in South-East Asia (nigh 7.five million hectares, of which lxxx% is for palm oil, used more often than not in food, cosmetics, cleaning products and fuel) amid others.
  • Since 1970 the global homo population has more than doubled (from 3.vii to 7.six billion), rising unevenly across countries and regions; and per capita gross domestic production is 4 times higher – with ever-more afar consumers shifting the ecology burden of consumption and production across regions.
  • The average abundance of native species in about major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20%, mostly since 1900.
  • The numbers of invasive conflicting species per land have risen by about 70% since 1970, across the 21 countries with detailed records.
  • The distributions of well-nigh half (47%) of land-based flightless mammals, for case, and virtually a quarter of threatened birds, may already have been negatively afflicted by climate change.

Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Nature

  • At to the lowest degree a quarter of the global land area is traditionally owned, managed, used or occupied by Ethnic Peoples. These areas include approximately 35% of the area that is formally protected, and approximately 35% of all remaining terrestrial areas with very depression human intervention.
  • Nature managed by Ethnic Peoples and Local Communities is under increasing pressure but is generally failing less rapidly than in other lands – although 72% of local indicators developed and used by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities show the deterioration of nature that underpins local livelihoods.
  • The areas of the world projected to experience meaning negative effects from global changes in climate, biodiversity, ecosystem functions and nature'south contributions to people are likewise areas in which big concentrations of Indigenous Peoples and many of the world's poorest communities reside.
  • Regional and global scenarios currently lack and would benefit from an explicit consideration of the views, perspectives and rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, their knowledge and understanding of large regions and ecosystems, and their desired hereafter evolution pathways. Recognition of the knowledge, innovations and practices, institutions and values of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and their inclusion and participation in environmental governance often enhances their quality of life, as well every bit nature conservation, restoration and sustainable use. Their positive contributions to sustainability can exist facilitated through national recognition of land tenure, access and resource rights in accordance with national legislation, the application of gratis, prior and informed consent, and improved collaboration, fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use, and co-management arrangements with local communities.

Global Targets and Policy Scenarios

  • By and ongoing rapid declines in biodiversity, ecosystem functions and many of nature's contributions to people hateful that most international societal and environmental goals, such as those embodied in the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will not exist achieved based on current trajectories.
  • The authors of the Written report examined 6 policy scenarios – very dissimilar 'baskets' of amassed policy options and approaches, including 'Regional Competition', 'Business as Usual' and 'Global Sustainability' – projecting the likely impacts on biodiversity and nature'due south contributions to people of these pathways by 2050. They concluded that, except in scenarios that include transformative change, the negative trends in nature, ecosystem functions and in many of nature's contributions to people will continue to 2050 and beyond due to the projected impacts of increasing land and sea use alter, exploitation of organisms and climate modify.

Policy Tools, Options and Exemplary Practices

  • Policy deportment and societal initiatives are helping to raise awareness about the impact of consumption on nature, protecting local environments, promoting sustainable local economies and restoring degraded areas. Together with initiatives at various levels these accept contributed to expanding and strengthening the current network of ecologically representative and well-connected protected expanse networks and other effective area-based conservation measures, the protection of watersheds and incentives and sanctions to reduce pollution .
  • The Report presents an illustrative list of possible deportment and pathways for achieving them across locations, systems and scales, which will be most probable to back up sustainability. Taking an integrated arroyo:
  • In agriculture , the Report emphasizes, among others: promoting skilful agricultural and agroecological practices; multifunctional landscape planning (which simultaneously provides food security, livelihood opportunities, maintenance of species and ecological functions) and cross-sectoral integrated management. Information technology also points to the importance of deeper engagement of all actors throughout the food arrangement (including producers, the public sector, ceremonious guild and consumers) and more integrated landscape and watershed management; conservation of the diversity of genes, varieties, cultivars, breeds, landraces and species; as well as approaches that empower consumers and producers through marketplace transparency, improved distribution and localization (that revitalizes local economies), reformed supply chains and reduced food waste.
  • In marine systems , the Report highlights, among others: ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management; spatial planning; effective quotas; marine protected areas; protecting and managing central marine biodiversity areas; reducing run- off pollution into oceans and working closely with producers and consumers.
  • In freshwater systems , policy options and actions include, among others: more inclusive h2o governance for collaborative water management and greater equity; improve integration of water resources management and mural planning beyond scales; promoting practices to reduce soil erosion, sedimentation and pollution run-off; increasing water storage; promoting investment in h2o projects with articulate sustainability criteria; besides as addressing the fragmentation of many freshwater policies.
  • In urban areas , the Report highlights, among others: promotion of nature-based solutions; increasing access to urban services and a good for you urban environment for low-income communities; improving admission to green spaces; sustainable product and consumption and ecological connectivity inside urban spaces, particularly with native species.
  • Across all examples, the Report recognises the importance of including different value systems and diverse interests and worldviews in formulating policies and actions. This includes the full and constructive participation of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in governance, the reform and evolution of incentive structures and ensuring that biodiversity considerations are prioritised across all fundamental sector planning.
  • "Nosotros have already seen the outset stirrings of actions and initiatives for transformative alter, such every bit innovative policies by many countries, local authorities and businesses, but especially past young people worldwide," said Sir Robert Watson. "From the young global shapers behind the #VoiceforthePlanet movement, to schoolhouse strikes for climate, there is a groundswell of understanding that urgent action is needed if we are to secure anything budgeted a sustainable future. The IPBES Global Assessment Report offers the best available expert show to assistance inform these decisions, policies and actions – and provides the scientific footing for the biodiversity framework and new decadal targets for biodiversity, to be decided in late 2020 in China, under the auspices of the United nations Convention on Biological Diversity."

By the Numbers – Fundamental Statistics and Facts from the Report

Full general

  • 75%: terrestrial surround "severely altered" to appointment by man actions (marine environments 66%)
  • 47%: reduction in global indicators of ecosystem extent and condition against their estimated natural baselines, with many continuing to refuse by at least 4% per decade
  • 28%: global land area held and/or managed by Ethnic Peoples , including >40% of formally protected areas and 37% of all remaining terrestrial areas with very depression human intervention
  • +/-60 billion: tons of renewable and not-renewable resources extracted globally each year, up nearly 100% since 1980
  • 15%: increase in global per capita consumption of materials since 1980
  • >85%: of wetlands nowadays in 1700 had been lost by 2000 – loss of wetlands is currently three times faster, in percentage terms, than wood loss.

Species, Populations and Varieties of Plants and Animals

  • 8 one thousand thousand: full estimated number of beast and plant species on Earth (including 5.5 million insect species)
  • Tens to hundreds of times: the extent to which the electric current charge per unit of global species extinction is higher compared to average over the last 10 million years, and the rate is accelerating
  • Up to 1 million: species threatened with extinction, many within decades
  • >500,000 (+/-nine%): share of the world's estimated 5.9 million terrestrial species with bereft habitat for long term survival without habitat restoration
  • >40%: amphibian species threatened with extinction
  • Virtually 33%: reef forming corals, sharks and shark relatives, and >33% marine mammals threatened with extinction
  • 25%: average proportion of species threatened with extinction across terrestrial, freshwater and marine vertebrate, invertebrate and found groups that have been studied in sufficient particular
  • At to the lowest degree 680: vertebrate species driven to extinction by human actions since the 16th century
  • +/-10%: tentative gauge of proportion of insect species threatened with extinction
  • >xx%: reject in boilerplate abundance of native species in virtually major terrestrial biomes, mostly since 1900
    +/-560 (+/-10%): domesticated breeds of mammals were extinct by 2016, with at least 1,000 more threatened
  • 3.5%: domesticated breed of birds extinct by 2016
  • lxx%: increase since 1970 in numbers of invasive conflicting species across 21 countries with detailed records
  • 30%: reduction in global terrestrial habitat integrity acquired by habitat loss and deterioration
  • 47%: proportion of terrestrial flightless mammals and 23% of threatened birds whose distributions may take been negatively impacted by climatic change already
  • >6: species of ungulate (hoofed mammals) would likely exist extinct or surviving only in captivity today without conservation measures

Food and Agronomics

  • 300%: increase in food crop product since 1970
  • 23%: land areas that accept seen a reduction in productivity due to state deposition
  • >75%: global food crop types that rely on animal pollination
  • US$235 to United states of america$577 billion: almanac value of global crop output at risk due to pollinator loss
  • 5.6 gigatons: almanac CO2 emissions sequestered in marine and terrestrial ecosystems – equivalent to sixty% of global fossil fuel emission
  • +/-11%: world population that is undernourished
  • 100 million: hectares of agricultural expansion in the tropics from 1980 to 2000, mainly cattle ranching in Latin America (+/-42 million ha), and plantations in Southeast Asia (+/-7.5 million ha, of which eighty% is oil palm), one-half of it at the expense of intact forests
  • 3%: increase in land transformation to agriculture between 1992 and 2015, by and large at the expense of orests
  • >33%: earth's land surface (and +/-75% of freshwater resources) devoted to crop or livestock production
  • 12%: earth'due south ice-gratuitous country used for ingather product
  • 25%: earth's water ice-free state used for grazing (+/-70% of drylands)
  • +/-25%: greenhouse gas emissions acquired by land clearing, crop production and fertilization, with animal-based food contributing 75% to that effigy
  • +/-30%: global crop production and global food supply provided by pocket-sized land holdings (<two ha), using +/-25% of agronomical land, usually maintaining rich agrobiodiversity
  • $100 billion: estimated level of financial support in OECD countries (2015) to agronomics that is potentially harmful to the environment

Oceans and Fishing

  • 33%: marine fish stocks in 2015 being harvested at unsustainable levels; 60% are maximally sustainably fished; 7% are underfished
  • >55%: sea area covered past industrial fishing
  • 3-10%: projected decrease in ocean net master product due to climate modify lone by the end of the century
  • three-25%: projected decrease in fish biomass by the end of the century in depression and high climate warming scenarios, respectively
  • >ninety%: proportion of the global commercial fishers accounted for by small scale fisheries (over 30 million people) – representing well-nigh 50% of global fish catch
  • Upwardly to 33%: estimated share in 2011 of earth's reported fish catch that is illegal, unreported or unregulated
  • >10%: decrease per decade in the extent of seagrass meadows from 1970-2000
  • +/-50%: live coral embrace of reefs lost since 1870s
  • 100-300 million: people in littoral areas at increased risk due to loss of littoral habitat protection
  • 400: low oxygen (hypoxic) littoral ecosystem 'dead zones' caused by fertilizers, affecting >245,000 km2
  • 29%: average reduction in the extinction hazard for mammals and birds in 109 countries thanks to conservation investments from 1996 to 2008; the extinction adventure of birds, mammals and amphibians would have been at to the lowest degree 20% greater without conservation activeness in recent decade
  • >107: highly threatened birds, mammals and reptiles estimated to have benefitted from the eradication of invasive mammals on islands

Forests

  • 45%: increase in raw timber production since 1970 (4 billion cubic meters in 2017)
  • +/-thirteen one thousand thousand: forestry industry jobs
  • l%: agronomical expansion that occurred at the expense of forests
  • 50%: decrease in internet rate of wood loss since the 1990s (excluding those managed for timber or agronomical extraction)
  • 68%: global forest expanse today compared with the estimated pre-industrial level
  • seven%: reduction of intact forests (>500 sq. km with no man pressure) from 2000-2013 in developed and developing countries
  • 290 million ha (+/-6%): native forest cover lost from 1990-2015 due to immigration and forest harvesting
  • 110 million ha: rise in the expanse of planted forests from 1990-2015
  • 10-15%: global timber supplies provided by illegal forestry (up to 50% in some areas)
  • >2 billion: people who rely on wood fuel to meet their primary energy needs

Mining and Free energy

  • <i%: total country used for mining, but the industry has meaning negative impacts on biodiversity, emissions, h2o quality and human wellness
  • +/-17,000: large-scale mining sites (in 171 countries), mostly managed by 616 international corporations
  • +/-six,500: offshore oil and gas ocean mining installations ((in 53 countries)
  • The states$345 billion: global subsidies for fossil fuels resulting in U.s.a.$5 trillion in overall costs, including nature deterioration externalities; coal accounts for 52% of post-revenue enhancement subsidies, petroleum for +/-33% and natural gas for +/-10%

Urbanization, Evolution and Socioeconomic Issues

  • >100%: growth of urban areas since 1992
  • 25 one thousand thousand km: length of new paved roads foreseen past 2050, with 90% of construction in least adult and developing countries
  • +/-fifty,000: number of large dams (>15m height) ; +/-17 million reservoirs (>0.01 ha)
  • 105%: increase in global human population (from 3.7 to 7.6 billion) since 1970 unevenly across countries and regions
  • 50 times higher: per capita GDP in developed vs. least adult countries
  • >2,500: conflicts over fossil fuels, h2o, food and land currently occurring worldwide
  • >one,000: environmental activists and journalists killed between 2002 and 2013

Health

  • 70%: proportion of cancer drugs that are natural or constructed products inspired past nature
  • +/-4 billion: people who rely primarily on natural medicines
  • 17%: infectious diseases spread by fauna vectors, causing >700,000 almanac deaths
  • +/-821 meg: people face food insecurity in Asia and Africa
  • 40%: of the global population lacks access to clean and safe drinking h2o
  • >lxxx%: global wastewater discharged untreated into the environment
  • 300-400 one thousand thousand tons: heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge, and other wastes from industrial facilities dumped annually into the world'south waters
  • 10 times: increase in plastic pollution since 1980

Climatic change

  • 1 caste Celsius: average global temperature departure in 2017 compared to pre-industrial levels, ascension +/-0.ii (+/-0.one) degrees Celsius per decade
  • >iii mm: annual average global bounding main level ascension over the past two decades
  • xvi-21 cm: rise in global average sea level since 1900
  • 100% increase since 1980 in greenhouse gas emissions, raising average global temperature by at least 0.seven degree
  • xl%: ascent in carbon footprint of tourism (to 4.5Gt of carbon dioxide) from 2009 to 2013
  • 8%: of total greenhouse gas emissions are from transport and food consumption related to tourism
  • 5%: estimated fraction of species at risk of extinction from ii°C warming  lone, rising to sixteen% at 4.3°C warming
  • Fifty-fifty for global warming of ane.v to 2 degrees, the majority of terrestrial species ranges are projected to shrink profoundly.

Sustainable Development Goals

  • Almost: Aichi Biodiversity Targets for 2020 likely to be missed
  • 22 of 44: assessed targets nether the Sustainable Evolution Goals related to poverty, hunger, wellness, water, cities, climate, bounding main and country are being undermined by substantial negative trends in nature and its contributions to people
  • 72%: of local indicators in nature developed and used by Ethnic Peoples and Local Communities that show negative trends
  • iv: number of Aichi Targets where good progress has been made on sure components, with moderate progress on some components of some other 7 targets, poor progress on all components of 6 targets, and bereft information to assess progress on some or all components of the remaining 3 targets

IPBES Partner Comments

"Nature makes human development possible simply our relentless demand for the world's resources is accelerating extinction rates and devastating the earth's ecosystems. UN Surround is proud to back up the Global Cess Study produced past the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services because it highlights the critical demand to integrate biodiversity considerations in global decision-making on any sector or claiming, whether its water or agriculture, infrastructure or business concern."
– Joyce Msuya, Acting Caput, United nations Surroundings

"Beyond cultures, humans inherently value nature. The magic of seeing fireflies flickering long into the night is immense. We depict free energy and nutrients from nature. Nosotros find sources of food, medicine, livelihoods and innovation in nature. Our well-being fundamentally depends on nature. Our efforts to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems must be underpinned by the best science that humanity tin can produce. This is why the scientific evidence compiled in this IPBES Global Assessment is so important. It will help us build a stronger foundation for shaping the mail service 2020 global biodiversity framework: the 'New Deal for Nature and People'; and for achieving the SDGs."
– Achim Steiner, Ambassador, United Nations Evolution Programme

"This essential report reminds each of united states of america of the obvious truth: the present generations take the responsibleness to bestow to future generations a planet that is not irreversibly damaged by human action. Our local, indigenous and scientific cognition are proving that we have solutions so no more excuses: we must live on earth differently. UNESCO is committed to promoting respect of the living and of its diversity, ecological solidarity with other living species, and to establish new, equitable and global links of partnership and intragenerational solidarity, for the perpetuation of humankind."
– Audrey Azoulay, Director-General, UNESCO

"The IPBES' 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services comes at a critical fourth dimension for the planet and all its peoples. The study'south findings – and the years of diligent work by the many scientists who contributed – volition offering a comprehensive view of the current weather of global biodiversity. Good for you biodiversity is the essential infrastructure that supports all forms of life on earth, including human being life. Information technology also provides nature-based solutions on many of the almost critical ecology, economic, and social challenges that we face as man order, including climatic change, sustainable development, health, and water and food security. We are currently in the midst of preparing for the 2020 Un Biodiversity Conference, in China, which will mark the close of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and set the course for a post 2020 ecologically focused sustainable development pathway to deliver multiple benefits for people, the planet and our global economic system. The IPBES report will serve as a fundamental baseline of where nosotros are and where we need to go as a global customs to inspire humanity to reach the 2050 Vision of the UN Biodiversity Convention "Living in harmony with nature". I desire to extend my thanks and congratulations to the IPBES community for their hard work, immense contributions and continued partnership."
– Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretarial assistant, Convention on Biological Multifariousness

"The Global Assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services adds a major chemical element to the body of evidence for the importance of biodiversity to efforts to achieve the Zero Hunger objective and meet the Sustainable Development Goals. Together, assessments undertaken by IPBES, FAO, CBD and other organizations betoken to the urgent need for activeness to better conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and to the importance of cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration among decision-makers and other stakeholders at all levels."
– Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Notes to editors

IPBES has now released the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Global Cess written report. The SPM presents the key messages and policy options, as approved past the IPBES Plenary. To access the SPM, photos, 'B-gyre' and other media resources go to: fleck.ly/IPBESReport The full six-affiliate Written report (including all data) is expected exceed 1,500 pages and will be published later this yr.

Additional videos:

  • IPBES Assessment of Country Degradation and Restoration (2018): world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=KCt7aai17Nk
  • IPBES Regional Assessments of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2018): www.youtube.com/sentinel?v=kR0HeepbWCc
  • IPBES Assessment of Pollinators, Pollination and Nutrient Production (2016): www.youtube.com/spotter?five=YwkYbeiwK5A
  • IPBES Cess of Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity (2016): www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfcDmtGa9I

IPBES Partner Comments nearly the importance of the Report:

  • Joyce Msuya, Acting Caput, United nations Environment
  • Audrey Azoulay, Director-General, UNESCO
  • José Graziano da Silva, Manager-General, Food and Agronomics Organization of the Un
  • Achim Steiner, Ambassador, United Nations Development Programme
  • Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Multifariousness

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