The world's ecosystems are at risk - this is what countries are doing to save them

The author contends that current international efforts to protect biodiversity, such as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, have been ineffective and warns that current activities could lead to the extinction of one million species. To prevent catastrophic climatic tipping points, the document proposes ten priorities for the CBD framework, including ending wildlife trade, regulating high-seas fishing, banning deforestation, implementing a global carbon tax of approximately $40 per ton, and increasing biodiversity investment to 1% of global GDP. It also calls for the phase-out of single-use plastics, the reversal of protected area downgrading (PADDD), the taxation of pollution, and the adoption of green national accounting systems.

• The international community has failed to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets adopted in 2010, with some rainforest-hosting countries spending up to 100 times more on subsidies that cause deforestation than on aid to prevent it.
• Current human activities risk the extinction of up to one million species in the coming decades, potentially triggering irreversible climatic tipping points and feedback loops.
• To meet the 2015 Paris climate accord reduction targets, the global price of carbon should be around $40 per ton, significantly higher than the 2016 voluntary market average of $3 per ton of CO2 equivalent.
• Global investment in natural conservation is currently only 0.08% of global GDP; the author proposes a multilateral benchmark of 1% of global GDP to provide necessary resources for biodiversity targets.
• The document identifies several urgent policy needs: ending the global wildlife trade, regulating high-seas industrial fishing, banning all deforestation, phasing out single-use plastics by the end of the next decade, and adopting green national accounting systems to track biodiversity loss and emissions.

APA

Molinari, C. M. R. E. A. C. (2019). The world's ecosystems are at risk - this is what countries are doing to save them. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/the-worlds-ecosystems-are-increasingly-at-risk-this-is-what-countries-are-doing-to-save-it/

Chicago

Molinari, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Echandi, Alvaro Cedeno. The world's ecosystems are at risk - this is what countries are doing to save them. World Economic Forum, 2019. https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/the-worlds-ecosystems-are-increasingly-at-risk-this-is-what-countries-are-doing-to-save-it/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{molinari2019worlds, author = {Molinari, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Echandi, Alvaro Cedeno}, title = {{The world's ecosystems are at risk - this is what countries are doing to save them}}, publisher = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2019}, month = nov, url = {https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/the-worlds-ecosystems-are-increasingly-at-risk-this-is-what-countries-are-doing-to-save-it/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }