Climate Change
Asia worried about climate change, Africa about environment-development trade-off
Experts from around the world express concerns over biodiversity
By Meenakshi Sushma
Published: Wednesday 21 March 2018
Over three years, 550 scientists have studied the biodiversity in these regions to lay out the current status of biodiversity and land quality at a global scale. These reports will be released on March 23 on a public forum.
While Asia-Pacific focused more on climate change (particularly sea-level rise, increased intensity of extreme storm events, ocean acidification and glacier retreat), the African contact group talked about challenges of trade-offs between development and biodiversity protection.
Dr. Emma Archer, co-chair of the IPBES, said, “Africa sits at a unique position in terms of development and it is well known that we have to make particular trade-offs in terms of development trajectories we want to accomplish. We have to work towards sustainable development while protecting the valuable benefits that nature provides us.”
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India Environment Portal Resources :
- The Lima declaration on biodiversity and climate change: contributions from science to policy for sustainable development
- Mainstreaming biodiversity and development: Guidance from African experience 2012-17
- State of Biodiversity Mitigation 2017: markets and compensation for global infrastructure development
- Voluntary sustainability standards and biodiversity: understanding the potential of agricultural standards for biodiversity protection
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