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The ElephantA resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens interested in climate change and the environmental emergency
Living Planet Index - Latest Results
2023-07-18 (or before) in livingplanetindex.orgGraphing tool showing the Living Planet Index over time.
The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a measure of the state of the world's biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. The LPI has been adopted by the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) as an indicator of progress towards its 2011-2020 targets and can play an important role in monitoring progress towards the post-2020 goals and targets negotiated at COP15.
Tagged under: Biodiversity Loss
Living Planet Index - Latest Results
2023-07-18 (or before) in livingplanetindex.orgGraphing tool showing the Living Planet Index over time.
The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a measure of the state of the world's biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. The LPI has been adopted by the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) as an indicator of progress towards its 2011-2020 targets and can play an important role in monitoring progress towards the post-2020 goals and targets negotiated at COP15.
Tagged under: Biodiversity Loss
Global economic growth will take big hit due to loss of nature
2020-02-12 by Fiona Harvey in The GuardianDamage to environment could wipe £368bn a year from growth by 2050 and UK will be hard hit, WWF warns
Tagged under: Animal Populations | Biodiversity Loss | Natural World | Economics | GDP | Fish | Economic Growth | Trees
Europe’s state of the environment 2020: change of direction urgently needed to face climate change challenges, reverse degradation and ensure future prosperity
2019-12-04 (or before) in European Environment AgencyEurope will not achieve its 2030 goals without urgent action during the next 10 years to address the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, increasing impacts of climate change and the overconsumption of natural resources. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest ‘State of the Environment’ report published today states that Europe faces environmental challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency. The report says, however, there is reason for hope, amid increased public awareness of the need to shift to a sustainable future, technological innovations, growing community initiatives and stepped up EU action lik...
Tagged under: Consumption | Sustainability | Biodiversity Loss | Climate Change | European Union | Europe | Climate Change Impacts | Economics
Populations of UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted since 1970
2019-10-03 by Damian Carrington in The GuardianQuarter of mammals and nearly half of birds assessed are at risk of extinction, says State of Nature report
Tagged under: Oceans | Farming | Agriculture | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss | Wildlife | Birds
Butterfly numbers fall by 84% in Netherlands over 130 years – study
2019-04-01 by Patrick Barkham in The GuardianEuropean insect populations shrink as farming leaves ‘hardly any room for nature’
Tagged under: Farming | Agriculture | Biodiversity Loss | Insect Populations | Butterflies and Moths | Wildlife | Insects
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