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Biodiversity is being lost at an alarming rate which poses a risk to the provision of ecosystem services. Pdf our understanding of conservation biology and sustainability have been independently developing for a long time. International handbook of sustainable development, routledge, london. The convention of biological diversity provides a global legal framework for action on biodiversity it is a key instrument to promote sustainable development and tackle the global loss of biodiversity. Biodiversity,%climatechangeandsustainabledevel opment% t%harnessingsynergiesandcelebrating% successes. The purpose of oecd 2018 mainstreaming biodiversity for sustainable development is to highlight examples of good practice, and remaining challenges, in four. Our understanding of conservation biology and sustainability have been independently developing for a long time. Ecological concepts, principles and applications to.
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Biodiversity is the variety of different forms of life on earth, including the different plants, animals, microorganisms, the genes they contain and the ecosystem they form. Biodiversity is not easily defined because it is more than just the sum of its parts, as all of its elements. The sdg targets also reflect all three goals of the convention on biological diversity the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its. Biodiversity and sustainable development secretariat of the. Secretariat of the convention on biological diversity cbd. The writers of the articles have been explicitly asked to focus on biodiversity and sustainability, particularly on how the conservation and sustainable use of the former is an essential component of the latter. Biodiversity at the heart of sustainable development introduction. The integration of conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability mdpi. Biodiversity for sustainable development convention biological.
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