{"id":134720,"date":"2024-10-18T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/cop16-from-forests-to-oceans-nature-in-a-dire-state\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T06:00:29","slug":"cop16-from-forests-to-oceans-nature-in-a-dire-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/cop16-from-forests-to-oceans-nature-in-a-dire-state\/","title":{"rendered":"COP16: From forests to oceans, nature in a dire state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134720\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Global destruction of nature has reached unprecedented extremes. As the United Nations two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off on Monday in Cali, Colombia, here is what you need to know about nature&#8217;s rapid decline &#8211; and its importance to the global economy. Plants and animals play significant parts in keeping nature humming, from cycling nutrients throughout an ecosystem to aerating soils and engineering rivers. Without plants and animals, the world would not be habitable for humans.<\/p>\n<p>However, more than a quarter of the world&#8217;s known species, or a total of about 45,300 species, opens new tab, are now threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Animals on the verge of extinction include Mexico&#8217;s vaquita porpoise, northern white rhinoceros in Africa, and the red wolf in the United States. Monitored populations of wild animals had shrunk by 73%, opens new tab globally by 2020 compared with 1970 figures, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>FORESTS<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nBecause forests are home to the most plant and animal species in any ecosystem, including 68% of mammal species, opens new tab, scientists consider deforestation levels to be a good proxy for nature destruction. In 2021, more than 100 countries pledged to halt deforestation and woodland degradation by 2030. As of 2023, the amount of land deforested was 45% higher than where it should be in order to meet the 2030 goal, according to the Forest Declaration Assessment, opens new tab, an annual analysis released by a coalition of research and civil society organisations.<\/p>\n<p>While the rate of deforestation has declined in Brazil&#8217;s Amazon, it has gone up in Bolivia, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the analysis shows. Scientists also worry about woodland degradation, with fires, logging and other destructive forces damaging forests but not completely destroying them. The assessment showed that the goal of ending degradation is 20% off track.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>FISHING &amp; OCEANS<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nFishing is the leading cause, opens new tab of marine wildlife destruction, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the top global science authority on nature.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 countries, with a combined population of 3.2 billion people, rely on seafood for at least 20% of their nutritional protein, opens new tab, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Roughly 38% of fish stocks are being overfished, compared with about 10% in the mid-1970s, according to the FAO. WWF says overfishing is also destabilizing coral reef ecosystems, which provide shelter, food and nursing grounds to a quarter of the world&#8217;s marine life.<br \/>\nThis year has seen the world&#8217;s fourth mass bleaching of corals, with more than half of the reef areas globally bleaching from high sea temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>FARMING<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nAgriculture drives some 90% of tropical deforestation, according to WWF, as jungles make way to soy farms, cattle ranches, palm oil plantations and other mass production of commodities.<br \/>\nGovernments pay at least $635 billion annually in subsidies for agriculture, opens new tab that are harmful to the environment, and likely several trillion dollars more in indirect subsidies, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Countries agreed at COP15 in 2022 to identify harmful subsidies by 2025 and to slash them by at least $500 million a year starting in 2030. Environmentalists have also urged banks to stop offering credit to commodities sectors linked to deforestation. Between January 2023 and June 2024, banks offered a total of about $77 billion in credit to these firms, according to the Forest &amp; Finance Coalition of research and advocacy groups.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ECONOMIC IMPACTS<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWhether it is insects pollinating crops, plants filtering fresh water supplies, or forests providing timber for construction, nature and its critters deliver a wealth of materials and services to the global economy for free. About $44 trillion of the world&#8217;s annual economic output &#8211; or roughly half the total &#8211; relies on these natural resources and services, opens new tab, according to the World Economic Forum. That includes $2.1 trillion in the United States, $2.4 trillion in the European Union and $2.7 trillion in China.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank estimates that the collapse of certain ecosystem services, such as fisheries or native forests, could cost the world economy $2.7 trillion, opens new tab annually by 2030, about 2.3% of global output. The U.N. Environmental Programme estimates spending on nature, opens new tab needs to increase to $542 billion annually by 2030, up from $200 billion as of 2022, to halt nature loss and meet climate goals.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/cop16-forests-oceans-nature-dire-state-2024-10-18\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/cop16-from-forests-to-oceans-nature-in-a-dire-state\/\">COP16: From forests to oceans, nature in a dire state<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[16555,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-134720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cop16-from-forests-to-oceans","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}