Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss.

Autor: McElwee P; Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08840, USA., Turnout E; Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, Droevendalsesteeg 3, Wageningen 6708 PB, the Netherlands., Chiroleu-Assouline M; Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris 75014, France., Clapp J; School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada., Isenhour C; Department of Anthropology & Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, 5773 South Stevens Hall, Orono, ME 04469, USA., Jackson T; Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK., Kelemen E; Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG), Ferenciek Tere 2, Budapest 1053, Hungary.; Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences, Tóth Kálmán Utca 4, Budapest 1097, Hungary., Miller DC; Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1102 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA., Rusch G; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Høgskoleringen 9, Trondheim 7034, Norway., Spangenberg JH; Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) Germany, Vorsterstrasse 97-99, Köln 51103, Germany., Waldron A; Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Cambridge University, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK., Baumgartner RJ; Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research, University of Graz, Merangasse 18/I, Graz 8010, Austria., Bleys B; Department of Economics, Ghent University, Tweekerkenstraat 2, Ghent 9000, Belgium., Howard MW; Department of Philosophy, The University of Maine, 5776 The Maples, Orono, ME 04469, USA., Mungatana E; Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, Private Bag x 20, Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa., Ngo H; IPBES Secretariat, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, Bonn 53113, Germany., Ring I; Technische Universität Dresden, International Institute Zittau, Markt 23, Zittau 02763, Germany., Santos R; Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE), NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus de Caparica, Caparica 2829-516, Portugal.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: One earth (Cambridge, Mass.) [One Earth] 2020 Oct 23; Vol. 3 (4), pp. 448-461. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 30.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.011
Abstrakt: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts on both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Global Assessment indicated that business as usual has created widespread ecosystem degradation. Therefore, a post-COVID world needs to tackle the economic drivers that create ecological disruptions. In this perspective, we discuss a number of tools across a range of actors for both short-term stimulus measures and longer-term revamping of global, national, and local economies that take biodiversity into account. These include measures to shift away from activities that damage biodiversity and toward those supporting ecosystem resilience, including through incentives, regulations, fiscal policy, and employment programs. By treating the crisis as an opportunity to reset the global economy, we have a chance to reverse decades of biodiversity and ecosystem losses.
Competing Interests: P.M. is on the Advisory Board of One Earth. The other authors declare no competing interests.
(© 2020 Elsevier Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE