Biodiversity and its global governance
A knowledge synthesis and analysis on the importance of effective global biodiversity governance highlighting the EU's global efforts to save biodiversity
Biodiversity is essential for sustaining life on our planet. Yet human intervention over the last century has led to an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, threatening our very survival, and disproportionately impacting the world's most vulnerable communities. Nature does not recognise national boundaries, and neither does the main underlying cause of biodiversity loss: unsustainable global economic growth.
For instance, consumer demand in high-income countries harms nature in low-income ones where local communities are most dependent on natural capital. Biodiversity pertains to a lot more than the abundance of species or ecosystems; its complexity and global connectedness necessitate transformative global governance that extends to closely related domains such as agriculture, land and sea use, climate change, and health.
This report aims primarily to increase awareness towards galvanising concerted global action to save the world's precious biodiversity. It summarises the various available channels, as well as the EU's efforts thus far.
PRAKASH Sona;
MONTEREALE GAVAZZI Giacomo;
DUBOIS Gregoire;
2026-01-20
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC145099
978-92-68-35353-0 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 40602,
OP KJ-01-25-684-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC145099,
10.2760/7299470 (online),
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