Biodiversité

At the UN Biodiversity Conference (CoP15), currently taking place in Montreal, Canada, delegates from 196 countries are negotiating a new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to attempt to halt the rapid destruction of species worldwide. The vision is to ensure that biodiversity is valued, protected and restored by 2050. A key part of the Framework will be a set of agreed

It is a well-known problem: too rarely do nature conservation initiatives, recommendations, or strategies announced by politicians lead to people really changing their everyday behavior. A German-Israeli research team led by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) has investigated the reasons for this. According to the team, the measures proposed by politicians do not sufficiently exploit the range of possible behavioral interventions and too rarely specify the actual target groups, they write in the journal Conservation Biology.

Alors que la prochaine décennie est annoncée comme cruciale pour stopper l'érosion de la biodiversité, l'enseignant-chercheur Gilles Bœuf et la sociologue Isabelle Arpin plaident pour que la préservation de la faune et de la flore soit enfin reconnue comme une priorité. Un dialogue organisé pour Sciences et Avenir - La Recherche 886, daté décembre 2020.