OECD: Mainstreaming biodiversity is crucial to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals
The loss in biodiversity is unprecedented. Without more ambitious policies, biodiversity is projected to decline by a further 10% globally by 2050 (OECD). The increasing loss in biodiversity is driven by the anthropogenic factors – climate change, unsustainable land-use management, commercial forestry, infrastructure development, pollution, habitat encroachment and fragmentation. The existing approaches of the legally …