Why Nature Matters?
Nature is in Rapid Decline
Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. Current extinction rates are around 100 to 1,000 times higher than the baseline rate, and they are increasing.
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
Nature Plays Vital Role in Climate Mitigation & Adaptation
Nature-based Solutions could contribute around 30% of the global mitigation required to achieve the 1.5°C temperature rise goal and support societies to adapt to climate hazards such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and wildfires.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Economic Growth Depends on Nature
£36 trillion of economic value generation – over half the world’s total GDP – is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services and, as a result, exposed to risks from nature loss.
Nature Loss Undermines Sustainable Development
Declines in nature and biodiversity at current trajectories will undermine progress toward 35 out of 44 of the targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Biodiversity
“The variability among living organisms from all sources including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part.“
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Natural Capital
“The world’s stocks of natural assets which include geology, soil, air, water and all living things. It is from this natural capital that humans derive a wide range of services, often called ecosystem services, which make human life possible.”