"Biodiversity is essential to our very existence, supporting our water and food supplies, our health and the stability of the climate. Biodiversity is declining in all regions of the world and at all spatial scales, impacting ecosystem functioning, water availability and quality, food security and nutrition, human, plant and animal health and resilience to the impacts of climate change. Biodiversity loss and climate change are interdependent and produce compounding impacts and impacts that threaten human health and human wellbeing. "
Deep, fundamental shifts in how people view and interact with the natural world are urgently needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss and safeguard life on Earth, warns a landmark new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
A landmark new report was launched today by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
The Assessment Report on the Interlinkages Among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health – known as the Nexus Report - offers decision-makers around the world the most ambitious scientific assessment ever undertaken of these complex interconnections and explores more than five dozen specific response options to maximise co-benefits across five ‘nexus elements’: biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change.
By the Numbers – Key Statistics from the Report
>50%: Proportion of annual global GDP generated by economic activities moderately to highly dependent on nature, amounting to $58 trillion
$13 trillion: Annual value of industries highly dependent on nature, accounting for 15% of global GDP
$31 trillion: Annual value of industries moderately dependent on nature, representing 37% of global GDP
$10 trillion: Estimated business opportunity value that could be generated while supporting 395 million jobs globally by 2030
55%: Increase in public funding of environmentally harmful subsidies since 2021
$10.7 trillion: Estimated annual external costs of sectors most responsible for nature’s decline
<15%: Global proportion of forests certified as sustainably managed
46,955: Documented environmental threats contested by civil society analyzed by authors
~40%: Proportion of protected areas and intact ecosystems across 87 countries managed by or with tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
2%: Proportion of global wealth held by top 1% of global population in 2021, with 1.85% owned by the bottom 50%
