Special report on Biodiversity, May 2010The political framework and policy arrangements should focus increasingly on reducing the pressure on biodiversity while integrating recommendations made by scientists and academics. These recommendations should also help politicians to become more aware of the role of policy as a factor in biodiversity loss. To achieve this, more emphasis needs to be placed on the economic, cultural and intangible resources provided by biodiversity.
The Atlas combines the key
results of the major European research project ALARM (68 partner organisations
in 35 countries in Europe and other continents) with some core outputs of
numerous other research networks. In total, 366 authors from more than 180
institutions in 43 countries contributed to the 280-page Atlas.
Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 - 2010
The
action taken over the next decade or two, and the direction charted under the
Convention on Biological Diversity, will determine whether the relatively
stable environmental conditions on which human civilization has depended for
the past 10,000 years will continue beyond this century. If we fail to use this
opportunity, many ecosystems on the planet will move into new, unprecedented
states in which the capacity to provide for the needs of present and future
generations is highly uncertain.