Whether in relation to climate change, biodiversity loss or environmental harm, solutions are urgently needed in law to mitigate, adapt, reduce or prevent significant impacts.
In some countries lack of property rights or lax law/regulatory enforcement necessarily leads to biodiversity loss(degradation costs having to be supported by the community).
Intensive farming, if not properly regulated, can lead to the depletion of water sources, pollution by chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and a loss of biodiversity;
Since Monterrey, we have become increasingly aware of the need to take account of economic, social and environmental challenges, including the loss of biodiversity, natural disasters and climate change, and to enhance policy coherence across all three dimensions of sustainable development.
But despite these encouraging achievements, efforts to address the loss of biodiversity need to be substantially strengthened, and sustained investment in coherent global biodiversity monitoring and indicators is essential to track and improve the effectiveness of these responses.
Companies that sell biofuels in the European Union must receive certifications to show that producing their fuel- often made from agricultural crops- does not cause deforestation, the loss of biodiversity, or the loss of carbon stocks.
For instance, in the Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve in Vietnam, inter-generational educational programmes have been developed, where students, parents and community members work together on activities for climate change adaptation and to counter the loss of biodiversity.
Targets established eight years ago to“significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss” by 2010 were not met at a global level, despite individual progress by some nations.
Quality of governance is increasingly recognised as central to sustainable development, which requires achieving just and legitimate outcomes in major global socio-economic and environmental issues such as poverty, climate change, food security and biodiversity loss.
Researchers highlighted three planetary boundaries--climate change, biodiversity loss and enhanced nitrogen cycles--where the rapid changes"cannot continue without significantly eroding the resilience of major components of earth-system functionning"(p. 473).
We recognise the impacts that illegal logging has on the livelihoods of many in the poorest countries in Africa and elsewhere, on environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and deforestation and hence global sustainable development.
If I were asked to list the greatest threats to the world, I would include global warming, but would add bioterrorism, nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, biodiversity loss, cyberterrorism, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence/robotics, and asteroid collisions.
In addition to being the second largest contributor of emissions(greater than all modes of transportation combined), animal agriculture takes up approximately 70% of the world's fresh water supply, and is one of the leading causes of deforestation, biodiversity loss and fresh water pollution.
We will protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainable and resilient infrastructure planning and development, sustainably managing natural resources and taking urgent action on biodiversity loss and climate change; 4.
Jan Willem Erisman and colleagues reflect on the influence that Haber's invention has had on society over the past century, both the benefits and unintended consequences, such as the increase in water and air pollution, the perturbation of greenhouse-gas levels, and the loss of biodiversity that was to result from the colossal increase in ammonia production and use.
Summit leaders reiterated the commitment of the EU and Japan to achieve a significant reduction by 2010 in the current rate of biodiversity loss and to establish an ambitious vision and targets for biodiversity beyond 2010, in the context of UN International Year of Biological Diversity and the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be hosted in Japan.
The vision is that“by 2050 European Union biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides- its natural capital- are protected, valued and appropriately restored for biodiversity's intrinsic value and for their essential contribution to human wellbeing and economic prosperity, and so that catastrophic changes caused by the loss of biodiversity are avoided.”.
The EU Biodiversity Strategy includes a new vision:"By 2050, European Union biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides- its natural capital- are protected, valued and appropriately restored for biodiversity's intrinsic value and for their essential contribution to human wellbeing and economic prosperity, and so that catastrophic changes caused by the loss of biodiversity are avoided”.
生物多様性の損失、保護地域のみでは抑制不可能。
Global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone.
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