Written by:
Stefan Schindler
Senior Expert in biodiversity and nature conservation Environment Agency Austria, Vienna.
Josef Settele
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany.
Iago Otero
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Written by:
Stefan Schindler
Senior Expert in biodiversity and nature conservation Environment Agency Austria, Vienna.
Josef Settele
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany.
Iago Otero
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Economic growth explicitly prevails in most policies, although it implies large resource consumption and thus amplified pressures on biodiversity. Decoupling of economy and resource use has not taken place yet. New Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) should examine low, zero, or negative economic growth and be considered for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
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