{"id":32760,"date":"2018-03-24T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32760"},"modified":"2018-03-24T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T15:20:21","slug":"nations-wont-reach-paris-climate-goal-without-protecting-wildlife-and-nature-warns-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32760","title":{"rendered":"Nations Won\u2019t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2018\/03\/23\/paris-climate-change-protecting-wildlife-nature-ipbes-biodiversity-report\">Nations Won\u2019t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-12747 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/Sierpe-river-mangrove-costa-rica_credit-shutterstock_tanguy-de-saint-cyr_crop.jpg?itok=vZyok2_Z\" alt=\"Sierpe river mangrove forest in Costa Rica\" width=\"826\" height=\"484\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix\">\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-share-wrapper new-horizontal-email-wrapper clearfix last\">A sweeping new report released today emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly\u00a0are.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Nations (<span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span>) pacts \u201call depend on the health and vitality of our natural environment in all its diversity and complexity,\u201d said Dr. Anne Larigauderie, executive secretary of the <span class=\"caps\">UN<\/span>-backed organization behind the report. \u201cActing to protect and promote biodiversity is at least as important to achieving these commitments and to human well-being as is the fight against global climate\u00a0change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report comes from the efforts of more than 550 scientists in over 100 nations, corralled by an organization often dubbed \u201cthe <span class=\"caps\">IPCC<\/span> for\u00a0biodiversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (<span class=\"caps\">IPCC<\/span>) assesses the state of research on global warming and its impacts, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (<span class=\"caps\">IPBES<\/span>)<\/a> reviews the best-available science on biodiversity and nature\u2019s contributions to human\u00a0well-being.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Climate Change not so Great for\u00a0Wildlife<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three years in the making, the study concluded humans are causing the planet to lose species at such a rapid clip that the resulting risks are on par with those presented by climate change. On top of being unfortunate for those species that no longer exist, these losses also endanger people\u2019s access to food, clean water, and energy, according to the\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>We must act to halt and reverse the unsustainable use of nature or risk not only the future we want but even the lives we currently lead,\u201d Robert Watson, current <span class=\"caps\">IPBES<\/span> chair and former <span class=\"caps\">IPCC<\/span> chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/mar\/23\/destruction-of-nature-as-dangerous-as-climate-change-scientists-warn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, by 2050, the report found that under a \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d scenario for greenhouse gas emissions, climate change could jump ahead of other threats, such as habitat loss and change in land use, as the primary cause of extinctions in North and South\u00a0America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nations Won\u2019t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report A sweeping new report released today emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly\u00a0are. The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Nations (UN) pacts \u201call depend on the health and vitality of our natural environment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14353,72,113,141,5317,5161,440,1789,11348,6917,881],"class_list":["post-32760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ashley-braun","tag-biodiversity","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-desmog-blog","tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-nature","tag-paris-climate-agreement","tag-the-guardian","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32761,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32760\/revisions\/32761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}