Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium development grants

Sachs, Jeffrey D., Ballie, Jonathan E. M., Sutherland, William J., Aimsworth, Paul R., Ash, Neville, Beddington, John, Blackburn, Tim M., Collen, Ben, Gardiner, Barry, Gastron, Kevin J., Godfray, H. Charles J., Green, Rhys E., Harvey, Paul H., House, Brett, Knapp, Sandra, Kümpel, Noëlle F., Macdonald, David W., Mace, Georgina M., Mallett, James, Matthews, Adam, May, Robert M., Petchey, Owen, Purvis, Andy, Roe, Dilys, Safi, Kamran, Turner, Kerry, Walpole, Matt, Watson, Robert, Jones, Kate E. and Watson, Robert (2009) Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium development grants. Science, 325 (5947). pp. 1502-1503. ISSN 1095-9203

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Abstract

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are designed to inspire efforts to improve people's lives by, among other priorities, halving extreme poverty by 2015 (1). Analogously, concern about global decline in biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services (2) gave rise in 1992 to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The CBD target “to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss” was incorporated into the MDGs in 2002. Our lack of progress toward the 2010 target (3, 4) could undermine achievement of the MDGs and poverty reduction in the long term. With increasing global challenges, such as population growth, climate change, and overconsumption of ecosystem services, we need further integration of the poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation agendas.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 1 - no poverty,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/no_poverty
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Resources, Sustainability and Governance (former - to 2018) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas
Depositing User:	Rachel Snow
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2011 14:30
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 00:26
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24631
DOI:	10.1126/science.1175035

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