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Bending the curve of biodiversity, just published in @nature. What are the 
actions needed to make it happen? 
actions needed to make it happen?
- Sustainable increases in crop yields.
- Trade increases in agricultural goods with reduced trade barriers.
- Reducing the waste of agricultural goods from field to fork by 50%.
- Cutting the share of animal calories in human diets by 50%.
- Increasing Protected Area extent to 40% terrestrial coverage, covering important sites for biodiversity and with improved management.
- Increasing restoration (reaching about 8% of terrestrial areas by 2050) and landscape-level conservation planning that balances production and conservation objectives on all managed land.
The full paper can be read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2705-y
Together with the #LivingPlanetReport2020 https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-gb/
and the @unepwcmc summary
https://www.unep-wcmc.org/news/strategy-for-halting-and-reversing-biodiversity-loss-revealed
https://www.unep-wcmc.org/news/strategy-for-halting-and-reversing-biodiversity-loss-revealed
The problem is linked to the global forest transition - we won't bent the #biodiversity curve if we dont bend the #deforestation curve. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30207-4
And we have not been very good so far at that either. (but there is hope)
Which of these measures do you personally support?
(cont.)
What is #biodiversity and why does it matter? #Pardonmyfrench
And for good measure, the second clip done with @AudreyDanaOff @FRBiodiv
The authors shared a read-only free access to the paper : https://rdcu.be/b6Zf2 . It is a robust, elegant and thourough piece of research by @Leclere_David @NeilBurgess081 et. al. Disclaimer : I'm not one of them. I'm just jealous.
Let's have a look at the choices we made. There were two polls, one for #Food and one for #Land. What did we endorse? 232 people responded on #Food, 125 on #Land.
Those responding on #Food selected Reduce Consumption of Animal Calories in Human Diet and then Reduce Waste. Very few picked the supply side or trade one.
These colorfull diagrams are quick and dirty way to suggest some measures will be easier than others.
@NeilBurgess081 @Leclere_David I wonder if you could input these votes as weights in the global models and run simulations. Where would that leave us?
