It’s Time To Panic About This Massive Environmental Report From The U.N.

Underlying drivers of destruction

Here are the areas in which the U.N. report has deemed our conservancy to be suboptimal, and in dire need of improvement:

Underlying drivers

• Biodiversity reporting
• Eliminating and reforming harmful subsidies
• Developing and implementing positive incentives
• Sustainable production and consumption
• Use within safe ecological limits

Direct pressures on the environment

• Habitat loss at least halved
• Degradation and fragmentation reduction
• Fish stocks harvested sustainably
• Reducing the adverse impact of fisheries
• Sustainable agriculture
• Sustainable aquaculture
• Reducing the detriment of pollution
• Reducing the detriment of excess nutrients
• Controlling or eradicating invasive species
• Managing invasive introduction pathways
• Reducing pressure on coral reefs
• Reducing pressure on vulnerable ecosystems

Improving biodiversity status

• Preventing extinction
• Improving the status of threatened species

Benefits for all

• Restoring and safeguarding critical ecosystems

Nature can be conserved, restored and used sustainably, and here’s how

Every decision we make has an impact in a globalized society. With products and experiences being shipped around the planet, failing to understand our own habits in consumption, waste, travel, and other behavior means failing to protect biomes around the globe.

Before 2030, the world’s decision makers could help put their actions in line with sustainability though enhanced and improved environmental policies and regulations, while reforming and removing harmful existing policies and subsidies.

The U.N. report points out pathways to sustainability via five types of management interventions, or levers, and eight leverage points for transformative change. The notion of levers and leverage points recognizes that complex global systems cannot be managed simply, but that in certain cases, specific interventions can be mutually reinforcing and generate larger-scale changes towards achieving shared goals.

The 5 Multi Actor Governance Interventions (levers):

1. Incentives and capacity building
2. Cross-sectional cooperations
3. Pre-emptive action
4. Decision-making in the context of resilience and uncertainty
5. Environmental law and implementation

The leverage points:

1. Embrace diverse visions of a good life
2. Reduce total consumption and waste
3. Unleash values and action
4. Reduce inequalities
5. Practice justice and inclusion in conservation
6. Internalize externalities and tele couplings
7. Ensure technology, innovation and investment
8. Promote education and knowledge generation and sharing

As for transofrmational change, here are the possible actions and pathways with which it can be achieved.

• Enabling integrative governance to ensure policy coherence and effectiveness
• Promoting inclusive governance approaches through stakeholder engagement and the inclusion of indigenous peoples and local communities to ensure equity and participation
• Practicing informed governance for nature and nature’s contributions to people
• Promoting adaptive governance and management
• Producing and consuming food sustainablyv
• Integrating multiple uses for sustainable forests
• Conserving, effectively managing and sustainably using terrestrial landscapes
• Promoting sustainable governance and management of seascapes, oceans and marine systems
• Improving freshwater management, protection and connectivity
• Building sustainable cities that address critical needs while conserving nature, restoring biodiversity, maintaining and enhancing ecosystem services
• Promoting sustainable energy and infrastructure projects and production
• Improving the sustainability of economic and financial systems

Now that we have that covered, it’s time to get to work!