This report has been prepared at the request of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as a contribution to the project on ‘The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB). Its main objective is to identify options for reducing global biodiversity loss in the face of increasing food, wood and energy demands from a world population of 9 billion people, in 2050, and increasing pressures of infrastructure and climate change on the natural environment. The challenge is to reconcile human development issues with protection of the natural environment including biodiversity. The difficulty of the challenge is underlined by the third Global Biodiversity Outlook, which concluded that, by 2010, the rate of loss had not been significantly reduced at any level – globally, regionally or nationally. The insights of this study may contribute to the pursuance of the post-2010 targets as agreed upon in the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Nagoya, in 2010.
Rethinking global biodiversity strategies: Exploring structural changes in production and consumption to reduce biodiversity loss
Year: 2010
