The independent review led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta was commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Finance in 2019. Commenting on the review, Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) International, said: “The findings of the Dasgupta Review are clear: nature underpins our economy and our well-being. Our failure to recognize this relationship, and take decisive and urgent steps to reverse nature loss, is costing us dearly and putting the future of humanity at risk. To safeguard our future, we must stop taking nature for granted as an expendable commodity, value its services and transform our economies and finance systems, so much so that they are geared towards conserving and restoring the natural world on which we all depend.
“Climate and nature-positive goals need to be at the center of how decisions are made by policy makers and businesses – and particularly, economic and fiscal policies.
“This year, governments have the opportunity to adopt a Paris-style agreement for biodiversity with clear science-based targets to reverse nature loss and secure a nature-positive world by 2030.”
To read the entire document, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-economics-of-biodiversity-the-dasgupta-review
Source: WebWire
