Biodiversity loss threatens global economy
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The UN biodiversity panel IPBES said its new report found biodiversity loss posed a systemic risk to the global economy and urged businesses to change harmful incentives and practices.
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Businesses must transform or go under
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“The loss of biodiversity is among the most serious threats to business. Yet the twisted reality is that it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it.” - S Polasky
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“The loss of biodiversity is among the most serious threats to business. Yet the twisted reality is that it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it.” - S Polasky
Businesses must transform or go under, biodiversity panel warns in new report
It is high time to redirect economic development so that it supports the nature it depends on, shows a new landmark report on biodiversity by the intergovernmental biodiversity platform IPBES, to whic...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Businesses must transform or go under
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“The loss of biodiversity is among the most serious threats to business. Yet the twisted reality is that it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it.” - S Polasky
www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...
“The loss of biodiversity is among the most serious threats to business. Yet the twisted reality is that it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it.” - S Polasky
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OUT NOW!
The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now!
Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature.
🔗 https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now!
Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature.
🔗 https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
OUT NOW!
The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now!
Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature.
🔗 https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now!
Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature.
🔗 https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Aníbal Pauchard
”Ipbes found that all businesses, even those seemingly far-removed from it, rely on the services nature provides for free, from clean water to fertile soils.”
#Biodiversity
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#Biodiversity
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Ipbes report: Nature loss could spell extinction for businesses
Experts call for urgent action by businesses to restore the natural systems that keep them running.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
”Ipbes found that all businesses, even those seemingly far-removed from it, rely on the services nature provides for free, from clean water to fertile soils.”
#Biodiversity
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#Biodiversity
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reporting on
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment
Summary for Policymakers is available now
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full assessment soon
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment
Summary for Policymakers is available now
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
full assessment soon
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment: Summary for Policymakers
The Summary for Policymakers of the Methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people will strengthen the knowledge base to suppor...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
reporting on
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment
Summary for Policymakers is available now
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
full assessment soon
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment
Summary for Policymakers is available now
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
full assessment soon
BBC News - Ipbes report: Nature loss could spell extinction for businesses - BBC News
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Ipbes report: Nature loss could spell extinction for businesses
Experts call for urgent action by businesses to restore the natural systems that keep them running.
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February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
BBC News - Ipbes report: Nature loss could spell extinction for businesses - BBC News
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by Garry Peterson Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment
Summary for Policymakers
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is now available
Summary for Policymakers
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is now available
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment
Summary for Policymakers
zenodo.org/records/1853...
is now available
Summary for Policymakers
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is now available
Reposted by Aníbal Pauchard
🔔 New from @IPBES.net, the Business and Biodiversity Assessment, Summary for Policymakers is out.
Clear message, nature is a core business dependency and a core business impact.
🔗 Read the report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
Clear message, nature is a core business dependency and a core business impact.
🔗 Read the report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
February 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
🔔 New from @IPBES.net, the Business and Biodiversity Assessment, Summary for Policymakers is out.
Clear message, nature is a core business dependency and a core business impact.
🔗 Read the report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
Clear message, nature is a core business dependency and a core business impact.
🔗 Read the report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
The new political focus on nature security
Looks a lot like Survival Ecology, in essence
Although Government still needs to make the leap in their thinking to the acknowledge the radical action needed
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Looks a lot like Survival Ecology, in essence
Although Government still needs to make the leap in their thinking to the acknowledge the radical action needed
www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
Frontiers | In the Climate Emergency, Conservation Must Become Survival Ecology
•Earth faces a climate emergency which renders conservation goals largely obsolete.•Current conservation actions are inadequate because they i) underplay bio...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:52 AM
The new political focus on nature security
Looks a lot like Survival Ecology, in essence
Although Government still needs to make the leap in their thinking to the acknowledge the radical action needed
www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
Looks a lot like Survival Ecology, in essence
Although Government still needs to make the leap in their thinking to the acknowledge the radical action needed
www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
Reposted by Aníbal Pauchard
The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report has been approved!👏 (8 February 2026)
Congratulations to all the experts and IPBES members on this momentous science-policy milestone for people and nature!🌍🧪
Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
#BizBiodiversity #IPBES12
Congratulations to all the experts and IPBES members on this momentous science-policy milestone for people and nature!🌍🧪
Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
#BizBiodiversity #IPBES12
February 9, 2026 at 1:08 PM
The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report has been approved!👏 (8 February 2026)
Congratulations to all the experts and IPBES members on this momentous science-policy milestone for people and nature!🌍🧪
Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
#BizBiodiversity #IPBES12
Congratulations to all the experts and IPBES members on this momentous science-policy milestone for people and nature!🌍🧪
Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
#BizBiodiversity #IPBES12
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Watch the media lauch online of the #BizBiodiversity report. @ipbes.net 🍿
Watch the media lauch online of the #BizBiodiversity report. @ipbes.net 🍿
IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Launch (#BizBiodiversity)
YouTube video by IPBES Secretariat
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February 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Watch the media lauch online of the #BizBiodiversity report. @ipbes.net 🍿
Watch the media lauch online of the #BizBiodiversity report. @ipbes.net 🍿
The making of novel ecosystems: A process-based framework for measurement, analysis and application 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application
Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The making of novel ecosystems: A process-based framework for measurement, analysis and application 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
by Markus P. Eichhorn Reposted by Jeremy Lindsell
Macroeconomics affect conservation on the ground. The surge in gold prices drove unregulated mining in Ghana's forest reserves. @mongabay.com report on the fightback led by local NGOs.
Successful campaign proves Ghana’s forests are worth more than gold (commentary)
On Dec. 10, 2025, Ghana’s government revoked one of the worst pieces of environmental legislation in our country’s history. The Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulations passed ...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Macroeconomics affect conservation on the ground. The surge in gold prices drove unregulated mining in Ghana's forest reserves. @mongabay.com report on the fightback led by local NGOs.
February 9, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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How China’s massive overfishing endangers global ecosystems
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
How China’s massive overfishing endangers global ecosystems
by Paul Dorfman
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
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February 9, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Ángel Borja
Participatory studies, conducted with local communities, have shown that depleted species and ecosystems have recovered in many locations around the world, supporting thriving ecosystems and fisheries, as in these photos from Geoff Shester, in Baja California #oceanoptimism
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Participatory studies, conducted with local communities, have shown that depleted species and ecosystems have recovered in many locations around the world, supporting thriving ecosystems and fisheries, as in these photos from Geoff Shester, in Baja California #oceanoptimism
“The dominance of GDP is not an accident, it occurs because GDP measures what is valuable to capital. It is the structure of capitalism that ultimately must be overcome.”
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
“The dominance of GDP is not an accident, it occurs because GDP measures what is valuable to capital. It is the structure of capitalism that ultimately must be overcome.”