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$4.5 tril. may be lost annually without biodiversity action: UNEP+
NAGOYA, Oct. 20 Kyodo -
The world would lose a maximum of $4.5 trillion every year if no action is
taken to prevent the loss of biological diversity, and the poor would be hit
the hardest by such a loss, a U.N. report said Wednesday.
The U.N. Environment Program released the report on the sidelines of the
ongoing international conference on biodiversity in the central Japan city of
Nagoya. The final report on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity aims
to promote the sustainable use of ecosystems among states, corporations and
people by showing their importance in economic terms.
Pavan Sukhdev, who headed the report, said unless some actions are taken to
protect biodiversity, poverty would worsen and have a large impact on future
generations of humanity.
He urged corporations to adopt the methods used in the report and release the
impact of their activities on ecosystems on a regular basis in the same way as
they do for carbon dioxide emissions, which are blamed for global warming.
According to the report, the world would lose between $2 trillion and $4.5
trillion every year if no action is taken against the destruction of
ecosystems. But if $45 billion is spent annually for conservation measures,
profits worth $5 trillion would be gained every year, it said.
Profits that humanity could gain from coral reefs are estimated to be a maximum
of $172 billion annually, while pollination through insects would translate
into an estimated 153 billion euros every year, according to the report.
The report points out that while agriculture, forestry and fisheries account
for 6 percent of Brazil's gross domestic product, 89 percent of the gross
production by the country's poor -- a population of 20 million -- comes from
those industries. The destruction of ecosystems would therefore have a great
impact on them, it said.
The report also lists many cases where efforts are made to preserve ecosystems.
One such effort includes the city of Nagoya relaxing building codes in urban
areas if developers preserve human-influenced and natural environments, such as
farmlands and forests.
==Kyodo
The world would lose a maximum of $4.5 trillion every year if no action is
taken to prevent the loss of biological diversity, and the poor would be hit
the hardest by such a loss, a U.N. report said Wednesday.
The U.N. Environment Program released the report on the sidelines of the
ongoing international conference on biodiversity in the central Japan city of
Nagoya. The final report on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity aims
to promote the sustainable use of ecosystems among states, corporations and
people by showing their importance in economic terms.
Pavan Sukhdev, who headed the report, said unless some actions are taken to
protect biodiversity, poverty would worsen and have a large impact on future
generations of humanity.
He urged corporations to adopt the methods used in the report and release the
impact of their activities on ecosystems on a regular basis in the same way as
they do for carbon dioxide emissions, which are blamed for global warming.
According to the report, the world would lose between $2 trillion and $4.5
trillion every year if no action is taken against the destruction of
ecosystems. But if $45 billion is spent annually for conservation measures,
profits worth $5 trillion would be gained every year, it said.
Profits that humanity could gain from coral reefs are estimated to be a maximum
of $172 billion annually, while pollination through insects would translate
into an estimated 153 billion euros every year, according to the report.
The report points out that while agriculture, forestry and fisheries account
for 6 percent of Brazil's gross domestic product, 89 percent of the gross
production by the country's poor -- a population of 20 million -- comes from
those industries. The destruction of ecosystems would therefore have a great
impact on them, it said.
The report also lists many cases where efforts are made to preserve ecosystems.
One such effort includes the city of Nagoya relaxing building codes in urban
areas if developers preserve human-influenced and natural environments, such as
farmlands and forests.
==Kyodo
