DESTRUCTION OF NATURE
- Human destruction of nature is rapidly eroding the world's to provide food, water and security.
- The demise of the animals, worldwide the biggest threats to nature are from habitat loss, invasive species, chemicals and climate change.
- Rainforests are rapidly diminishing and degrading.
- The world has lost over 130cm hectares of rainforests, since 1990.
- The regional population is gobbling up resources at twice the rate of the global average.
- Climate change and biodiversity loss could replace land-conversion as the main driver of extinction.
- People to switch to a more sustainable diet and to waste less food, water and energy.
- The largely successful campaign to reduce the gases that were causing a hole in the ozone layer.
- There are several different future paths, depending on the policies adopted by governments and the choices made by consumers.
- Biodiversity is under serious threat in many regions of the world.
- Policymakers to take action at national, regional and global.
