Global assessment Chapter 6: Options for decision makers

Razzaque, Jona; Visseren-Hamakers, Ingrid

Abstract

In recent decades, the extent and scope of societal responses to environmental problems, including biodiversity decline, have been extensive and diverse. The outcomes, however, have been mixed across sectors and levels of governance, with limited success in reverting global trends and in addressing the root causes of degradation. Lessons and opportunities also abound, amid new challenges and scenarios. This chapter discusses opportunities and challenges for all decision makers to advance their efforts in meeting, synergistically, internationally agreed goals for sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. In doing so, the chapter builds on the analysis in the previous chapters, which have identified direct and indirect drivers of change, evaluated progress or lack of progress in achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and several environmental conventions, and assessed plausible scenarios and possible pathways.

• Report Type: Policy Document
• Acceptance Date: May 31, 2019
• Publication Date: May 31, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jul 23, 2019
• Pages: 260
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1677177
• Publisher URL: https://www.ipbes.net/system/tdf/ipbes_global_assessment_chapter_6_unedited_31may.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=35282
• Contract Date: Jul 23, 2019