Ensuring long-term sustainability: Biodiversity protection imperative for survival of humankind

Ensuring long-term sustainability: Biodiversity protection imperative for survival of humankind

The extinction of a species may have unforeseen impacts and could potentially lead to the destruction of an entire ecosystem. By Ramnath Vaidyanathan, Our planet is at a crossroads — never has the world faced a more pressing crisis: climate change and the threat it poses to biodiversity, and through it, to human existence. While … Read more

View: Nature has to be central in the post-Covid economy

View: Nature has to be central in the post-Covid economy

Even if the value of some provisioning ecosystem service, like logwood and fish, are embedded in measures of GDP, more important services like ecological resilience and benefits from diversity of life forms are often ignored. SynopsisThe current pandemic has made evident the extent of global interconnectness between our economies, health, environments and, more broadly, our … Read more