Study examining biodiversity loss calls for urgent global economy 'rethink'

Conservation efforts in Kenya, and around the world, have been hindered by structural economic processes such as debt and austerity, further contributing to the decline of species such as rhinos. Credit - Patrick Bigger, Lancaster University
May 14, 2021
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New research examining the major causes of the world's biodiversity loss calls for an urgent and profound re-organisation of the global post-pandemic economy to prevent further planetary harm. Existing trade rules, economic policies, debt loads, subsidies, and tax loopholes, as well as a long-standing failure by rich countries to meet spending commitments, are not only undermining efforts to conserve biodiversity...

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biodiversity loss
Convention on Biological Diversity
COVID19
global economy
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