Biodiversity decline leads to economic losses
Saturday 17 May 2008
The destruction of flora and fauna is costing the world €2 trillion euros ($3.1 trillion) each year according to EU study to be published by German news weekly Der Spiegel.
Saturday 17 May 2008
By AFPThe European Union and German environment ministry-led research, entitled "The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity," will be presented on Monday at the ninth conference of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Bonn.
In its edition out Monday, Der Spiegel will present extracts from the paper, with the study's lead author, Pavan Sukhdev, a senior figure with Deutsche Bank in India, writing that "the world's poor bear the brunt of the cost."
Der Spiegel also says that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will announce a sharp increase in German funding to combat deforestation in line with Norway, which ploughs 500 million dollars annually into forest retention.
Deforestation -- a huge factor in species loss and global carbon emissions contributing to climate change -- is a central theme of this year's conference in Bonn, formerly the capital of West German.
One in four mammal species, one in eight among birds, a third of amphibian creatures and 70 percent of all plant life made the most recent endangered list issued by another UN agency, the World Conservation Union (WCU).
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20/05/2008 15:08:00 Alert a moderator
what a crock
By heidianne jackson -
"climate change" is a fallacy created by the leftists and their minions in the press - world wide. basing conservation on computer models 5, 10, even 100 years out is ridiculous. meteorologists are WRONG more than 60% of the time even when only dealing with the next 7 days and you expect me to believe they have it right for the next 100 years??
all weather is cyclical. all things change - and we are CLEARLY NOT in a warming cycle. in fact, we are in a cooling trend. sunspot activity anyone?
go ahead, believe what you want. but with your silly insistence that we need to reduce carbon emissions we are making a planet where no one can afford to live.
19/05/2008 12:26:54 Alert a moderator
Endangered Species
By Anne Cox -
Having just sorted for recycling press cuttings I used for teaching purposes five and more years ago, nothing changes. It's great to see that Germany is still playing a lead role in environmental protection, but where is the UK? Talk talk talk and committee after committee and no politician will really take the lead. I think in today's language, the job is not 'sexy' . Do you want a planet for our grandchildren? Well then "stop fiddling while Rome burns".
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