Report warns of severe impact on biodiversity

A comprehensive new report highlights the catastrophic consequences of a relentless focus on economic growth, business and trade.

Between 1970 and 2016, the world's population doubled as the value of agricultural crop production grew three times, the global economy quadrupled, and trade expanded 10 times over.

"Nature across most of the globe has now been significantly altered by multiple human drivers, with the great majority of indicators of ecosystems and biodiversity showing rapid decline," notes a summary of the 1,500-page from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.