Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Sept 4, 2019 15:42:47 GMT 2
(.#A.007).- Towards the 1st extinction of mass caused by the man.
Towards the 1st extinction of mass caused by the man.
According to the NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Amazon increased by 54% in January 2019 - the first month of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency - compared to January 2018.
A disturbing report on biodiversity will be submitted to 130 countries, Monday, April 29, 2019, in Paris.
PARIS (AFP) - How to curb the destruction of nature, vital for humanity: scientists and governments meet next week to warn of the dark state of the planet's ecosystems upset, such as climate, by the onslaught of activities men.
The exercise had not been done for nearly 15 years: 150 experts from 50 countries worked for 3 years, capturing thousands of biodiversity studies, to write a much-needed global assessment of ecosystems and services that they render to the man.
" SUMMARY FOR DECISION-MAKERS "
Their 1,800-page report will be submitted from Monday in Paris to the 130 member states of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPRES), which will have to discuss line by line and adopt the "summary for decision makers "on the IPCC model for climate.
"The global environmental heritage - the land, the ocean, the atmosphere and the biosphere - of which humanity as a whole depends is being altered to an unprecedented level, with cascading impacts on local ecosystems and regional, "says the draft summary, which can be changed according to what states want to put forward.
Drinking water, air, pollinating insects, CO2-absorbing forests ... The situation is just as alarming as the last IPCC report that revealed in October the growing gap between greenhouse gas emissions and the goal of limiting global warming. climate change and its catastrophic effects.
MAJOR THREATS
The text also links these two major threats, identifying some similar causes, in particular agricultural practices and deforestation, responsible for about a quarter of CO2 emissions, but also serious direct damage to ecosystems.
Behind this land use and the direct exploitation of resources (fishing, hunting), the first culprits of the attacks on nature, come then the climatic change, the pollutions of all leave and the invasive species.
As a result, "an imminent rapid acceleration of the extinction rate of species", according to the synthesis project: of the 8 million species estimated on the planet (including 5.5 million species of insects), "a half -million to one million species are expected to be threatened with extinction, many of them in the coming decades. "
BEGINNING OF THE SIXTH
These projections correspond to the warnings of many scientists who believe that the Earth is at the beginning of the 6th "mass extinction", the first since man arrived on Earth.
"There is no doubt that we are going to the 6th mass extinction, and the first caused by men," said yet recently to AFP the boss of IPBES Robert Watson. "But it's not something that the public can easily see. "
So, for the awareness to be greater, "we must tell them that we are losing insects, forests, charismatic species".
And it is also necessary that "governments and the private sector begin to take seriously the biodiversity as much as the climate", insisted the scientist.
One year ahead of a long-awaited meeting in China of the member states of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), many experts hope that this IPBES report will be a crucial step towards an agreement as striking as the one of Paris on the climate.
F I N.
Towards the 1st extinction of mass caused by the man.
According to the NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Amazon increased by 54% in January 2019 - the first month of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency - compared to January 2018.
A disturbing report on biodiversity will be submitted to 130 countries, Monday, April 29, 2019, in Paris.
PARIS (AFP) - How to curb the destruction of nature, vital for humanity: scientists and governments meet next week to warn of the dark state of the planet's ecosystems upset, such as climate, by the onslaught of activities men.
The exercise had not been done for nearly 15 years: 150 experts from 50 countries worked for 3 years, capturing thousands of biodiversity studies, to write a much-needed global assessment of ecosystems and services that they render to the man.
" SUMMARY FOR DECISION-MAKERS "
Their 1,800-page report will be submitted from Monday in Paris to the 130 member states of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPRES), which will have to discuss line by line and adopt the "summary for decision makers "on the IPCC model for climate.
"The global environmental heritage - the land, the ocean, the atmosphere and the biosphere - of which humanity as a whole depends is being altered to an unprecedented level, with cascading impacts on local ecosystems and regional, "says the draft summary, which can be changed according to what states want to put forward.
Drinking water, air, pollinating insects, CO2-absorbing forests ... The situation is just as alarming as the last IPCC report that revealed in October the growing gap between greenhouse gas emissions and the goal of limiting global warming. climate change and its catastrophic effects.
MAJOR THREATS
The text also links these two major threats, identifying some similar causes, in particular agricultural practices and deforestation, responsible for about a quarter of CO2 emissions, but also serious direct damage to ecosystems.
Behind this land use and the direct exploitation of resources (fishing, hunting), the first culprits of the attacks on nature, come then the climatic change, the pollutions of all leave and the invasive species.
As a result, "an imminent rapid acceleration of the extinction rate of species", according to the synthesis project: of the 8 million species estimated on the planet (including 5.5 million species of insects), "a half -million to one million species are expected to be threatened with extinction, many of them in the coming decades. "
BEGINNING OF THE SIXTH
These projections correspond to the warnings of many scientists who believe that the Earth is at the beginning of the 6th "mass extinction", the first since man arrived on Earth.
"There is no doubt that we are going to the 6th mass extinction, and the first caused by men," said yet recently to AFP the boss of IPBES Robert Watson. "But it's not something that the public can easily see. "
So, for the awareness to be greater, "we must tell them that we are losing insects, forests, charismatic species".
And it is also necessary that "governments and the private sector begin to take seriously the biodiversity as much as the climate", insisted the scientist.
One year ahead of a long-awaited meeting in China of the member states of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), many experts hope that this IPBES report will be a crucial step towards an agreement as striking as the one of Paris on the climate.
F I N.
