BIODIVERSITY LOSS INTERLINKED

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- S V KRISHNA CHAITANYA @Chennai

has been a year of extremes. Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the first time on record, a critical threshold if breached continuously will push the limits of life on Earth to adapt. The United Nations University in Bonn said nearly one million species are currently at risk of extinction and natural ecosystems are collapsing.

The latest science says these are deeply interconnected and warns that tackling them in isolation is ineffective and often counterproductive.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has released a new landmark report called "Nexus Report", a product of three years' work by 165 leading international experts from 57 countries from all regions of the world.

The report categorically says existing actions to address these challenges fail to tackle the complexity of interlinked problems and result in inconsistent governance.