Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts on both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Global Assessment indicated that business as usual has created widespread ecosystem degradation. Therefore, a post-COVID world needs to tackle the economic drivers that create ecological disruptions. In this perspective, we discuss a number of tools across a range of actors for both short-term stimulus measures and longer-term revamping of global, national, and local economies that take biodiversity into account. These include measures to shift away from activities that damage biodiversity and toward those supporting e

SUBMITTER: McElwee P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7526599 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature