Through examining the drivers of biodiversity loss in highly biodiverse countries, we show that it is not population driving the loss of habitats, but rather the growth of commodities for export, particularly soybean and oil-palm, primarily for livestock feed or biofuel consumption in higher income economies. Thus, inequitable consumption drives global biodiversity loss, whilst population is used to scapegoat responsibility. Instead, the responsibilities are clear and have recently been summarized by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES: Leverage points for biodiversity conservation lie in reducing unsustainable consumption through diet shifts, tracking supply chains, and technological innovation as well as ensuring sustainable production to reduce biodiversity losses associated with industrial agriculture.
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Revue de presse et du net par le Pôle de partage des connaissances S&T de l'Office français de la biodiversité
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Climate change can be an overwhelming theme with many indicators involved. To better understand it, Eurostat published today a Statistics Explained article on climate change and its driving forces providing a long-term analysis and in-depth background. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are the result of human activities which cause anthropogenic climate change, and the EU is an ambitious contributor to the global efforts to fight climate change and reduce GHG emissions, being committed to being climate neutral by 2050. Data produced by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and re-publishded by Eurostat show that GHG emissions have been declining in most sectors, except in fuel combustion in transport, including international aviation. 
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The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2023 explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade that include energy supply and food crisis, rising inflation, cyberattacks, failure to meet net-zero targets, weaponization of economic policy, weakening of human rights.
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Eléments clés du rapport : https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023 Les vieux risques et les nouveaux... l'accent mis sur l'effondrement de la biodiversité... 6 risques environnementaux sont classés ds le top10 des risques à venir ds les 10 ans (climat, ressources naturelles, biodivversité
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L’envol des cours des matières premières agricoles, le coût des emballages et de l’énergie pourraient accélérer des hausses de prix déjà visibles sur les produits de première nécessité.
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Pour info, via RFI " Près de 20 ans après le dernier sommet sur l'alimentation de l'ONU, c’est l'ouverture ce jeudi 23 septembre du sommet des Nations unies sur les systèmes alimentaires à New York. "
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Alice C. Hughes, Kévin Tougeron, Dominic A. Martin, Filippo Menga & al.,Biological Conservation,Vol 277,2023,109841, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109841. via @kevin_tougeron