Diverse Values News Today

Around the world, people value nature in diverse and profound ways that extend far beyond economic usage. But this diversity in how people value nature is not properly reflected in key political and economic decisions. A new study published in Nature

Policymakers were encouraged to look at the economic and social aspects with the environmental elements of biodiversity losses to meet GBF targets.

A mining company's attempt to mine the sacred Niyamgiri Mountain met with protest and success as the courts recognized the indigenous communities' rights.

This is how the Muslims’ Holy Book - the Quran refers to the most precious element of life.Religions apart, also UNESCO underlines the fact that “water is a unique and non-substitutable resour

An assessment report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services argues that the way nature is valued in political and economic decisions is a ‘key driver of the global biodiversity crisis’ and provides a ‘vital opportunity to address it’. An...

 The way nature is valued in political and economic decisions is both a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a vital opportunity to address it, according to a four-year methodologic

Living soil laboratory fauna at ICRAF. Photo: ICRAF/Ann Wavinya

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment responds to the need to support decision-makers in understanding and accounting for the wide range of nature’s values in policy decisions to address the current biodiversity crisis and to achieve  Sustainable Development Goals. Approved by representatives of the 139 Member States of IPBES in July 2022, the Assessment Report on Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature finds that...

There is a dominant global focus on short term profits and economic growth, often excluding the consideration of multiple values of nature in policy decisions and the way nature is valued in political and economic decisions is both a key driver ...

Narrow Valuation of Nature is Widening Biodiversity Loss