[Coral-List] world biodiversity report

[Douglas Fenner]

'The warning lights are flashing.'  Report finds nations failing to protect
biodiversity

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/warning-lights-are-flashing-report-finds-nations-failing-protect-biodiversity

There is progress in some aspects

World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature- UN report

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/15/every-global-target-to-stem-destruction-of-nature-by-2020-missed-un-report-aoe

"Half a trillion dollars of harmful government subsidies for agriculture,
fossil fuels and fishing are highlighted in the report as a particular area
of concern by its lead author, David Cooper, deputy executive secretary of
the Convention on Biological Diversity.

“We are still seeing so much more public money invested in things that harm
biodiversity than in things that support biodiversity,” he said."
Cheers,  Doug

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Douglas Fenner
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NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
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Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

The toxic effects of air pollution are so bad that moving from fossil fuels
to clean energy would pay for itself in health-care savings and
productivity gains
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c9f70ba54f&e=190a62d266>
—
even if climate change didn’t exist.  In the US alone, decarbonization
would save 1.4 MILLION lives in the US alone.  And save $700 Billion a year.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths

"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths