TY - JOUR
T1 - Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss
AU - McElwee, Pamela
AU - Turnout, Esther
AU - Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille
AU - Clapp, Jennifer
AU - Isenhour, Cindy
AU - Jackson, Tim
AU - Kelemen, Eszter
AU - Miller, Daniel C.
AU - Rusch, Graciela
AU - Spangenberg, Joachim H.
AU - Waldron, Anthony
AU - Baumgartner, Rupert J.
AU - Bleys, Brent
AU - Howard, Michael W.
AU - Mungatana, Eric
AU - Ngo, Hien
AU - Ring, Irene
AU - Santos, Rui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2020/10/23
Y1 - 2020/10/23
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts on both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Global Assessment indicated that business as usual has created widespread ecosystem degradation. Therefore, a post-COVID world needs to tackle the economic drivers that create ecological disruptions. In this perspective, we discuss a number of tools across a range of actors for both short-term stimulus measures and longer-term revamping of global, national, and local economies that take biodiversity into account. These include measures to shift away from activities that damage biodiversity and toward those supporting ecosystem resilience, including through incentives, regulations, fiscal policy, and employment programs. By treating the crisis as an opportunity to reset the global economy, we have a chance to reverse decades of biodiversity and ecosystem losses.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts on both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Global Assessment indicated that business as usual has created widespread ecosystem degradation. Therefore, a post-COVID world needs to tackle the economic drivers that create ecological disruptions. In this perspective, we discuss a number of tools across a range of actors for both short-term stimulus measures and longer-term revamping of global, national, and local economies that take biodiversity into account. These include measures to shift away from activities that damage biodiversity and toward those supporting ecosystem resilience, including through incentives, regulations, fiscal policy, and employment programs. By treating the crisis as an opportunity to reset the global economy, we have a chance to reverse decades of biodiversity and ecosystem losses.
KW - COVID-19
KW - biodiversity
KW - climate
KW - economic policy
KW - sustainable economies
KW - transformative change
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U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.011
DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.011
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34173540
AN - SCOPUS:85097235505
SN - 2590-3330
VL - 3
SP - 448
EP - 461
JO - One Earth
JF - One Earth
IS - 4
ER -