U.N. Report: Invest Billions in Protecting Threatened Ecosystems Today, Save Trillions Tomorrow. By Marlowe Hood, AFP, November 13, 2009. "Investing billions today to protect threatened ecosystems and dwindling biodiversity would reap trillions in savings over the long haul, according to a UN-backed report issued Friday. More than a billion of Earth's poorest denizens depend directly on coral reefs, forests, mangroves, aquifers and other forms of "natural capital" to eke out a living. Unless world leaders take swift action to halt the accelerating depletion of these resources, the result could be hunger, conflict and environment refugees, the study warned. 'Recognizing and rewarding the value delivered to society by the natural environment must become a policy priority,' said Pavan Sukhdev, who headed the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity [PDF, 48 pp] paper released in Brussels."
2009-11-16
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