...whereas the elder IPCC has largely unified the scientific | community and has had considerable international policy success, the six-year-old biodiversity panel has not yet been able to exert ...anything like the same degree of influence. ...the scientific community it represents is a house divided. The issues underlying the rift reflect broader debates in science about traditional power structures and increasing access for underrepresented groups, as well as opposition to dominant economic systems. ...scientists and conservationists from developed countries have largely led efforts to study and assess species decline. ...the biodiversity panel was only formed in 2012, a full two decades after international leaders signed the UN Convention on Biological Diversity at the famous Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. ...the June IPBES meeting left out the Ecosystem Services Partnership, according to de Groot.
The final agreement signed in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh includes a commitment to establish a loss-and-damage fund to help lower-income countries deal with the impacts of climate ...change. The idea of funding for loss and damage gained traction in the years leading up to the 2015 Paris climate agreement, says Achala Abeysinghe, an environmental lawyer now at the Global Green Growth Institute in Seoul, who worked with Huq advising climatevulnerable countries. Article 8 of the final agreement explicitly uses the term: "Parties recognize the importance of averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change."
Eliminating hunger: F. Ensuring healthy lives for all: F. Protecting and sustainably using ocean resources: F. The trends were there before 2020, but then problems increased with the COVID-19 ...pandemic, war in Ukraine and the worsening effects of climate change. In his 2021 report, entitled Our Common Agenda (see go.nature. com/3u97mrg), Guterres writes: "Absurdly, GDP rises when there is overfishing, cutting of forests or burning of fossil fuels. Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, the former environment minister of Costa Rica, says he urged his finance and economics colleagues to take account of the impact of economic development on water, soils, forests and fish. Local authorities were asked to measure the economic cost of pollution and environmental damage, and offset that against their economic growth targets.
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