IPCC for Biodiversity?
POST: IPCC for Biodiversity?
| Topics: |  Biological Diversity, Ecological Systems, Forests, Fisheries |
Wanted: an IPCC for biodiversity
Q: Are the recommendations offered in this Editorial reasonable and feasible? What perspective can you add to this discussion?
An independent, international science panel would
coordinate and highlight research on a pressing topic.
- An Editorial posted in Nature on June 3, 2010, calls for the consttution of a fact-finding panel on biological diversity threats, needs and futures:
The 2006 review of the economics of climate change, chaired by economist Nicholas Stern, served as a wake-up call to the need to respond to long-term climatic risks. Similarly, the final report of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study, due this October, is touted as a 'Stern review for nature'. It will no doubt make a grim read that presents the massive price of biodiversity loss, and the destruction of ecosystems and the services they supply. Organizers of the study — an outcome of the 2007 Potsdam meeting of environment ministers of G8 countries and the five main newly industrializing countries — hope that it, too, will snap policy-makers to attention.
Q: Are the recommendations offered in this Editorial reasonable and feasible? What perspective can you add to this discussion?
Nature 465: 525. 03 June 2010. doi:10.1038/465525a
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