Publications by authors named "Jonathan M M Ekstrom"
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- The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework aims to stabilize and restore species status, justifying the need for a scalable metric to measure the impact of conservation actions globally.
- The STAR (species threat abatement and restoration) metric assesses how targeted actions like habitat restoration and threat reduction can reduce extinction risks, showing significant contributions from sustainable agriculture and forestry.
- Countries like Indonesia and Brazil hold significant responsibility for biodiversity, as they manage over 31% of the STAR values for key species, while Key Biodiversity Areas, though only 9% of land, represent nearly half of these values.
Businesses, governments, and financial institutions are increasingly adopting a policy of no net loss of biodiversity for development activities. The goal of no net loss is intended to help relieve tension between conservation and development by enabling economic gains to be achieved without concomitant biodiversity losses. biodiversity offsets represent a necessary component of a much broader mitigation strategy for achieving no net loss following prior application of avoidance, minimization, and remediation measures.
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