Elsevier Announces Support for World Environment Day 2020 - Seite 2

To further support #WorldEnvironmentDay, Elsevier's Education, Reference, and Continuity Group, along with its Scientific, Technical and Medical Journals group, are publishing curated content, covering a range of topics including responsible consumption, water quality, agricultural systems, and health/well-being. The goal in highlighting over 60 carefully curated chapters and articles is to illustrate the dependability and care that scientific research offers in various aspects of biodiversity.

"The umbrella term 'biodiversity' is one of the fastest growing focus areas for researchers, governments and policy influencers," said Philippe Terheggen, Managing Director, Elsevier Journals, and member of the company's Sustainability Board. "I hope this special issue on the topic of biodiversity for World Environment Day will be inspiring and underline the pressing relevance for everyone to contribute."

To access the special issue collection of articles and book chapters, visit the SciTech Connect Blog or the RELX SDG Resource Center.

Notes for editors

Examples of the impact on Earth's biodiversity include:

• Wildlife declining on average by over 60 percent in the last 50 years, putting at risk up to 1 million species to experience mass extinction in this decade;
• dramatic changes to the Earth's biosphere with two-thirds of our oceans impacted by human activity;
• live coral cover on reefs nearly halved; and
• one-third of all forest area lost, putting the collection of all life and nature on Earth at risk.

These changes in land and sea use derived from the exploitation of organisms, pollution and climate change are contributing to the largest global impact on nature. Underpinned by societal values and behaviors including unsustainable production and consumption, humankind's unsustainable use of nature is largely to blame for the degradation in today's ecosystems.

¹ Source: WED 2020 Working Brief accessed May 29, 2020

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