"CODE RED FOR HUMANITY"
“The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable,” warned UN Secretary-General António Guterres in August 2021. “Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.” Since then, the situation has dramatically worsened
IPCC Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (March 21-April 1, 2022)Contribution of Working Group II to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (February 27, 2022)
IPCC Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying Press Release (August 9, 2021)
IPCC Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis Report (August 7, 2021)
The Global Forest Goals Report 2021, United Nations Department of Economic and Global Affairs
The State of the World's Forests Report 2020
Summary for Policymakers, 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
AN URGENT REPORT
DEVASTATING UNITED NATIONS REPORT ON BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEMS, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF ITS KIND TO DATE, MAKES CLEAR THAT WE MUST ACT NOW, AND IN CONCERT, TO SAVE WHAT IS LEFT OF OUR WORLD
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction. Nature’s Dangerous Decline “Unprecedented.” Species Extinction Rates “Accelerating.” Current global response insufficient. Indigenous and local knowledge drawn upon as models for the first time in addition to scientific and governmental sources. “Transformative changes” needed to restore and protect nature. Opposition from vested interests can and must be overcome for public good. Past predictions seriously underestimated the damage and devastation
ACTION NECESSITATED NOW
“The overwhelming evidence of the IPBES [Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services] Global Assessment, from a wide range of different fields of knowledge, presents an ominous picture. The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide”
—IPBES Chair Sir Robert Watson
