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Improving efficiency, reducing waste and emissions, strengthening supply-chain transparency and shifting finance away from harmful activities can all reduce risk while protecting ecosystems. (File Photo)
BIODIVERSITY

Every business depends on nature and most are helping destroy it, landmark report warns

Biodiversity loss has become a systemic risk to the global economy, as businesses continue to profit from nature while failing to pay for the damage

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
US President Donald Trump (Flickr)
BIODIVERSITY LOSS

Climate leaders condemn US withdrawal from UN frameworks

The US is set to exit the UN climate treaty and key global science institutions under a Trump directive, a move critics say will isolate the country and deepen climate and…

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
Green but not good: Water hyacinth on Lake Victoria at Kichinjio Beach in Kisumu, Kenya, hamper fishermen’s efforts to make a living. In Lake Victoria, fisheries have declined from the depletion of tilapia caused by the spread of water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread terrestrial invasive alien species. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)
FOOD SECURITY

Invasive alien species driving animal and plant extinctions

A major new report warns that invasive alien species wreaking havoc on nature and thus on nature’s contribution to people

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Despite the country’s globally significant biodiversity, ecosystems across terrestrial, freshwater, estuarine and marine environments are under escalating pressure.
AFFORESTATION

Tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together, not separately, scientists say

Some climate adaptation and mitigation projects end up harming the natural environment and people, a new report warns

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Deforestation and agriculture, including livestock production, account for about a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, and have wreaked havoc on natural ecosystems as well. (Carl de Souza/AFP)
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS

One million species risk extinction due to humans — draft UN report

Biodiversity loss and global warming are closely linked, according to the 44-page Summary for Policy Makers

  • Marlowe Hood
5 min read