Humanity must stop considering nature as a source of short-term profit and base itself on "values" linking its well-being to the state of our planet, warns the UN in a report published Monday.

Without such a change, the goals of sustainable development and reducing inequalities in the world will remain wishful thinking, underline the UN biodiversity experts, IPBES, in the volume devoted to “values ​​and valuation of nature”.

A meeting of 139 countries

"The way we approach economic development is at the heart of the biodiversity crisis", summarizes Unai Pascual, environmental economist at the University of Bern and co-chair of the IPBES session which adopted this report during of a meeting of 139 countries in Bonn.

The text "aims to integrate different types of values ​​into decisions", continues the expert.

It comes three days after another IPBES report warning that the overexploitation of wildlife threatens the well-being of billions of people.

Two reports for COP15

These two reports will feed into the discussions at the COP15 biodiversity, in December in Montreal, which must set a framework for protecting nature and its resources at the global level by 2050.

For this second opus, 80 experts analyzed more than 13,000 scientific studies on the destruction of ecosystems and its reasons and the alternative values ​​that could promote their sustainability.

Because men are the main causes of this crisis of life, which is closely intertwined with climate change.

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