Natural resource science gives us immediate steps for effective biodiversity governance

The author contends that because production and consumption patterns drive over 90% of global biodiversity loss, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must incorporate scientific natural resource management. The text proposes four immediate actions: establishing standard methods for assessing economic impacts on biodiversity, advancing integrated spatial planning and mapping, incentivizing nature-positive business models and nature-based solutions, and incorporating natural capital and ecosystem service valuation into economic decision-making. The author emphasizes that global governance must provide clear standards and definitions, particularly for the term 'nature-positive', to enable businesses and governments to transition to a nature-positive economy.

• Production and consumption patterns are responsible for more than 90% of the loss of global biodiversity, yet these factors are often overlooked in national biodiversity plans.
• To improve biodiversity governance, the author proposes four scientific and policy actions: creating a standard method for assessing economic activity impacts, developing integrated spatial planning and mapping tools, promoting nature-positive business models and nature-based solutions, and using biophysical, socio-cultural, and economic indicators to value nature.
• The global biodiversity governance community needs to establish a practical definition of 'nature-positive' to create effective biodiversity standards for natural climate solutions and production.
• The UN System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) has been approved as a global statistical standard, and the G7 Ministers have committed to its implementation to help establish baseline natural capital accounting data.

APA

Teixeira, I. (2022). Natural resource science gives us immediate steps for effective biodiversity governance. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/natural-resource-science-gives-us-immediate-steps-for-effective-biodiversity-governance/

Chicago

Teixeira, Izabella. Natural resource science gives us immediate steps for effective biodiversity governance. World Economic Forum, 2022. https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/natural-resource-science-gives-us-immediate-steps-for-effective-biodiversity-governance/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{teixeira2022natural, author = {Teixeira, Izabella}, title = {{Natural resource science gives us immediate steps for effective biodiversity governance}}, publisher = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2022}, month = sep, url = {https://www.weforum.org/stories/nature-and-biodiversity/natural-resource-science-gives-us-immediate-steps-for-effective-biodiversity-governance/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }