 As world leaders gather to discuss the current financial crisis, CEEweb for Biodiversity warns about ecological implications. The unsustainable development our economies are based on is taking form in a financial crisis. Unless decision-makers rethink the very notions of credit and debt, an even grimmer
ecological crisis is awaiting humanity in the near future.
This crisis is closely linked to the fact that the credits we take today need to be repaid from the profit we will generate in the future. However, there is a limit on the total human use of natural resources and energy in our limited world, so this ongoing resource depletion and the declining carrying capacity of our planet makes the practice of credit-taking less and less viable in the long run. The push for more profit and growth in an indebted world puts more pressure on the environment.
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During two weeks in late September 2008, WWF organized a series of workshops with three people who were key in developing and implementing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The objective of the workshops was to give decision-makers and other stakeholders around the Baltic Sea a chance to learn from their knowledge and experience.
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Barcelona, Spain, 6 October, 2008 (IUCN) – The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, revealed at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona.
The new study to assess the world’s mammals shows at least 1,141 of the 5,487 mammals on Earth are known to be threatened with extinction. At least 76 mammals have become extinct since 1500. But the results also show conservation can bring species back from the brink of extinction, with five percent of currently threatened mammals showing signs of recovery in the wild.
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While the world struggles with the turmoil of a market crisis, IUCN’s World Conservation Congress defined the way forward in solving the environmental crisis. Participants in the Congress underlined that the cost of biodiversity losses are not only greater than those of the current financial problems, but in many cases, they are irreparable.
“We have made substantial decisions here in Barcelona; we’re showing how saving nature must be an integral part of the solution for any world crisis,” says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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 Brussels, Belgium: European Commission plans to halve rather than halt tropical deforestation by 2020 have been sharply criticized by WWF today.
The European Commission's communication on reducing emissions from deforestation and a legislative proposal to tackle the problem of illegal logging are unlikely to meet their intended objectives of halting deforestation and eliminating the trade of illegal wood, according to the global conservation organization.
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