Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Conclusion 1
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 37
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ call for transformative change provides a yardstick against which action to address biodiversity loss should be measured. The global response to biodiversity loss has so far been inadequate. Piecemeal conservation efforts, and increases in the efficiency of production, cannot tackle the wholesale deterioration of the natural environment the world is now experiencing. Fundamental changes in the production and consumption of natural resources must be made. Without urgent, substantial action, ecosystem tipping points will be exceeded and the global biosphere will be left beyond repair.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 37, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).