On Monday, June 6, 2022 at 3:26:59 PM UTC+8, David P. wrote:

UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’

PARIS, 6 May 2019 – Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented
in human history – and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the summary of which was approved at the
7th session of the IPBES Plenary, meeting last week (29 April – 4 May) in Paris.

“The overwhelming evidence of the IPBES Global Assessment, from a wide range
of different fields of knowledge, presents an ominous picture,” said IPBES Chair, Sir Robert Watson. “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other
species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.”

“The Report also tells us that it is not too late to make a difference, but only if we start now at every level from local to global,” he said. “Through ‘transformative change’, nature can still be conserved, restored
and used sustainably – this is also key to meeting most other global goals.
By transformative change, we mean a fundamental, system-wide reorganization across technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values.”

“The member States of IPBES Plenary have now acknowledged that, by its very nature, transformative change can expect opposition from those with interests vested in the status quo, but also that such opposition can be overcome for the broader public good,” Watson said.

The IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
is the most comprehensive ever completed. It is the first intergovernmental Report of its kind and builds on the landmark Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
of 2005, introducing innovative ways of evaluating evidence.

Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past 3 years,
with inputs from another 310 contributing authors, the Report assesses changes over the past five decades, providing a comprehensive picture of
the relationship between economic development pathways and their impacts on nature. It also offers a range of possible scenarios for the coming decades.

Based on the systematic review of about 15,000 scientific and government sources, the Report also draws (for the first time ever at this scale) on indigenous and local knowledge, particularly addressing issues relevant to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.

“Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people are our common heritage
and humanity’s most important life-supporting ‘safety net’. But our safety
net is stretched almost to breaking point,” said Prof. Sandra Díaz (Argentina),
who co-chaired the Assessment with Prof. Josef Settele (Germany) and
Prof. Eduardo S. Brondízio (Brazil and USA).

“The diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems, as well as
many fundamental contributions we derive from nature, are declining fast, although we still have the means to ensure a sustainable future for people and the planet.”

The Report finds that around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before
in human history.

The average abundance of native species in most major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20%, mostly since 1900. More than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened. The picture is less clear for insect species, but available evidence supports a tentative estimate of 10% being threatened.
At least 680 vertebrate species had been driven to extinction since the
16th century and more than 9% of all domesticated breeds of mammals used
for food and agriculture had become extinct by 2016, with at least 1,000 more breeds still threatened.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

It is said there is an estimate need of 3 to 5 trillion dollars to attain all those goals. But seriously, all these narratives are not actual outcomes. Pictures of kids and poor people holding up with their placards were used to tell the world about the
crisis, but have anyone really care about them - their health and potential future, and poor working people of their livelihoods that have had been them in the past 70 years or even earlier.

Seriously, what is needed to showcase how each country is doing their part with their people on how they have done to mitigate them. Government broadcasting stations around the world should work together to broadcast cases showing how people and
businesses are doing their part. There should be a showcase of "before" and "after" to show viewers how they had done, and their cost towards it. When people around the world watched these cases, they will be able to emulate and learn from them, instead.
The techniques of doing them and methods of producing outcomes, will be shared to the public viewers.

In addition to showcase the outcomes, there should be pictures and locations of where those bad people doing bad things to doing the opposite to the world. It will help the authorities to know where and when they happened and penalty action be taken
against them so that other people will not learn to follow them in harming the environment. All showcasing of pictures - "before and after" actions and steps taken and introduced will raise awareness and provide motivation to accelerate changes and
improvements by individual participating on their own, too. Success of sustainable changes should be measured by those outputs of actual outcomes produced, instead.

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