Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Target 7b: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant

reduction in the rate of loss (UNDP)

By Olivia H.EN0802

What is the problem?

 …the ongoing loss of species around the world is affecting human well-being. (BBC News, 2010)

Earth is unable to keep up in the struggle to regenerate. (WWF, 2006)

CausesHabitat loss and degradation

Climate changeExcessive nutrient load and other forms of pollution

Over-exploitation and unsustainable use

Invasive alien species(UN’s 3rd Global Biodiversity Outlook, 2010)

Proportion of all assessed species in different threat categories of extinction risk on the IUCN Red List, based on data from 47,677 species.Source: IUCN, pie chart compiled by Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2010) Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, May 2010

Effects

• Ecosystem services– Protection of water resources– Soils formation and protection– Nutrient storage and recycling– Pollution breakdown and 

absorption– Contribution to climate stability– Maintenance of ecosystems– Recovery from unpredictable 

events

• Biological resources– Food– Medicinal resources and 

pharmaceutical drugs– Wood products– Ornamental plants– Breeding stocks, population 

reservoirs– Future resources– Diversity in genes, species and 

ecosystems• Social benefits, such as

– Research, education and monitoring

– Recreation and tourism– Cultural values

Let’s just think in another way.

A healthy biodiversity provides:

(Anup Shah From Global Issue, 2008) 

GREENPEACE

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3 of its campaignsSave the bluefin tuna of the MediterraneanJustice for whales and the Tokyo TwoG8/20:Invest in the future- I call on the leaders of the 

2010 G20 to act in the interests of all the world's citizens. (Greenpeace,2010)

Why this is important to me?

© National Geographic Society.

©Discovery Communications, LLC. 

What will I do?

Volunteer for 

Pay continuous attention to global issues

What can you do?

Volunteering for non-profit organizationsArising public awareness of this issueChanging things from the bottom up!

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