Living Planet Report 2022

The Living Planet Report 2022 documents a severe decline in global wildlife populations and emphasizes the interlinked nature of the biodiversity and climate crises. It advocates for a global 'nature-positive' goal by 2030, requiring transformative shifts in economic systems, production, and consumption to move beyond current conservation efforts and address the root drivers of environmental degradation.

• The 2022 global Living Planet Index indicates an average 69% decline in the relative abundance of monitored wildlife populations between 1970 and 2018.
• Regional and habitat-specific declines vary, with Latin America experiencing the steepest regional drop at 94% and freshwater species seeing a global decline of 83%.
• Land-use change remains the primary current threat to nature, but climate change is projected to become the dominant cause of biodiversity loss if global warming is not limited to 1.5°C.
• Humanity is currently overusing the planet's biocapacity by at least 75%, which is equivalent to using the resources of 1.75 Earths.
• The report proposes a 'nature-positive' global goal by 2030, meaning there should be more nature by the end of the decade than at its start, serving as a biodiversity equivalent to the net-zero emissions goal for climate.
• The Amazon basin is approaching a critical tipping point, with 17% of the forest deforested and another 17% degraded; Indigenous organizations are calling for the permanent protection of 80% of the Amazon by 2025.
• Oceanic sharks and rays have seen a 71% decline in global abundance over the last 50 years, primarily due to an 18-fold increase in fishing pressure since 1970.
• Transformative change requires a shift from conventional conservation to addressing indirect drivers, including the reform of economic systems to value well-being over monetary GDP growth and the elimination of harmful subsidies estimated at US$ 4-6 trillion in 2020.

APA

R.E.A., A., M., G., D., J. B., & T., P. (2022). Living Planet Report 2022. WWF International. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/366/3dsbul1akz_lpr_2022_full_report.pdf

Chicago

R.E.A., Almond,, Grooten, M., Juffe Bignoli, D., and Petersen, T. Living Planet Report 2022. WWF International, 2022. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/366/3dsbul1akz_lpr_2022_full_report.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rea2022living, author = {R.E.A., Almond, and M., Grooten, and D., Juffe Bignoli, and T., Petersen,}, title = {{Living Planet Report 2022}}, institution = {WWF International}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/366/3dsbul1akz_lpr_2022_full_report.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }