Sumaila, R., Rodriguez, C.M., Schultz, M., Sharma, R., Tyrrell, T.D., Masundire, H., Damodaran, A., Bellot Rojas, M., Rosales, R.M.P., Jung, T.Y., Hickey, V., Solhaug, T., Vause, J., Ervin, J., Smith, S. & Rayment, M. 2017. Investments to reverse biodiversity loss are economically beneficial. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 29: 82-88.
Reversing biodiversity loss by 2020 is the objective of the 193 countries that are party to the global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In this context, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets 2020 were agreed upon by the CBD in Nagoya, Japan in 2010 and this was followed by asking a high-level panel to make an assessment of the financial resources needed to achieve these targets globally. First, we review the literature on th...