IPBES-Bericht, 11.7.2022 (engl. Originalfassung)
Unprecedented decline of biodiversity and climate change are affecting ecosystem functioning and negatively impacting people’s quality of life. An important driver of global decline of biodiversity is the unsustainable use of nature including persistent inequalities between and within countries, emanating from predominant political and economic decisions based on a narrow set of values (e.g., prioritizing nature’s values as traded in markets). Simultaneously, access to and distribution of the benefits from nature’s many contributions to people are highly inequitable.
Yet, a consolidated global consensus reflected by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity has established a shared vision of prosperity for people and the planet. Achieving this vision depends on systemwide transformative change that incorporates the diverse values of nature aligned with the mutually supportive goals of justice and sustainability and its intertwined economic, social and environmental dimension.
People perceive, experience and interact with nature in many ways. This results in different understandings of the role that nature plays as the foundation of people's lives and for their quality of life, leading to a wide diversity of values about nature. However, policymaking largely disregards the multiple ways in which nature matters to people in that it often prioritizes a narrow set of nature’s values.
For example, the predominant focus on supporting short-term profit and economic growth typically relies on macroeconomic indicators like Gross Domestic Product. Such indicators generally consider only those values of nature reflected through markets and therefore do not adequately reflect changes in quality of life. One important reason is that they overlook the non-market values associated with nature’s contributions to people, including the functions, structure, and ecosystem processes upon which life depends. In addition, such indicators do not account for the over-exploitation of nature and its ecosystems and biodiversity and the sustainability impacts over the long-term.
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