70 responses to biodiversity loss: the IPBES Nexus Assessment - UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
UNEP-WCMC experts lead chapters on policy options and biodiversity finance in landmark Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Nexus Report.
Environmental, social and economic crises – such as biodiversity loss, water and food insecurity, health risks and climate change – are all interconnected. Effective solutions do not attempt to solve each issue independently, instead they holistically address the linkages between problems.
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 comprehensive scientific assessment ever undertaken of these complex interconnections and explores dozens of specific response options to maximize co-benefits from action across five ‘nexus elements’: biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change.
Approved on Monday 16 December by the 11th session of the IPBES Plenary, composed of representatives of the 147 Governments that are members of IPBES, the report is the product of three years of work by 165 leading international experts from 57 countries across all regions of the world. It finds that existing actions to address these challenges fail to tackle the complexity of interlinked problems and result in inconsistent governance.
UNEP-WCMC experts, Samantha Hill, James Vause and Sebastian Dunnett attended the Plenary session as authors on two chapters of the assessment, focused on response options for different stakeholders, and on the wider economic considerations related to nature.
Past and current challenges
The report states that biodiversity is declining at every level from global to local, and across every region. These ongoing declines in nature, driven by human activity have direct and dire impacts on food security and nutrition, water quality and availability, health and wellbeing outcomes, resilience to climate change and almost all of nature’s other contributions to people.
Posted On: 18/12/2024
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