Sentences with phrase «biodiversity safe limits»
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The loss is due to changes in land use and puts levels of biodiversity beyond the «safe limit» recently proposed by the planetary boundaries — an international framework that defines a safe operating space for humanity.
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«It's worrying that land use has already pushed biodiversity below the level proposed as a safe limit,» said Professor Andy Purvis of the Natural History Museum, London, who also worked on the study.
«This is the first time we've quantified the effect of habitat loss on biodiversity globally in such detail and we've found that across most of the world biodiversity loss is no longer within the safe limit suggested by ecologists» explained lead researcher, Dr Tim Newbold from UCL and previously at UNEP - WCMC.
With the status quo maintained, then natural forest degradation, big corporations pushing the ecological limits and threats to biodiversity will not necessarily be solved by replacing Coal / Gas with statistically safer baseload technology.