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Expertise on #12 – Can we halt biodiversity loss under the economic growth paradigm?



Written by:

Stefan Schindler

Senior Expert in biodiversity and nature conservation Environment Agency Austria, Vienna.

Josef Settele

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany.

Iago Otero

Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.



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In partnership with:

Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne & Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Environment Agency Austria

Written by:

Stefan Schindler

Senior Expert in biodiversity and nature conservation Environment Agency Austria, Vienna.

Josef Settele

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany.

Iago Otero

Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.



Economic growth explicitly prevails in most policies, although it implies large resource consumption and thus amplified pressures on biodiversity. Decoupling of economy and resource use has not taken place yet. New Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) should examine low, zero, or negative economic growth and be considered for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

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