“Many other values are ignored in favour of short-term profit and economic growth,” added Pascual, who co-chaired the assessment.Ī summary for policymakers was approved by 139 governments on 8 July. There is strong evidence that valuing nature on the basis of market prices is contributing to the present biodiversity crisis, said Unai Pascual, an economist at the Basque Centre for Climate Change in Leioa, Spain, at the launch in Bonn. “The capacity to pollinate crops, or regulate water, has been in decline for 50 years,” she said. The world’s failure to value biodiversity properly has caused a long-term decline in a variety of services that the environment provides, said Anne Larigauderie, an ecologist who leads the IPBES secretariat in Bonn, Germany, at the report’s launch on 11 July.
“Policymaking largely disregards the multiple ways in which nature matters to people,” especially Indigenous people and low-income communities, says the report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).įor example, in proposals for hydroelectric dams, the needs of affected communities are often seen as secondary to those of urban consumers - especially if communities are required to be displaced, resulting in people losing livelihoods and being compelled to change their way of life, the report finds. Yet assessing nature in purely monetary terms can also be harmful to people and the environment, according to the world’s largest assessment of environmental valuation. These include counting species and evaluating the cost of replacing a service provided by nature. There are more than 50 ways to value the environment, but most research and policymaking focuses on just a handful of methods. Relatively few studies try to understand the value of cultural heritage sites such as Nachi Falls, which is also a pilgrimage route in Japan’s Kii mountain range.
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