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Human Rights for Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and ecosystems

Biodiversity and human rights are closely interlinked. Without healthy, functioning ecosystems, which depend on healthy biodiversity, there would be no clean air to breathe, safe water to drink or nutritious food to eat. The loss of biodiversity has severe consequences for human well-being and human rights. This page highlights the role stakeholders from International Geneva as a global hub for environmental governance play in advancing a human rights-based approach in tackling biodiversity loss

Geneva based stakeholders play n important role in advancing human rights based approach in issues,challenges and solutions for tackling biodiversity issues.

Biodiversity and human rights are closely interlinked. Without healthy, functioning ecosystems, which depend on healthy biodiversity, there would be no clean air to breathe, safe water to drink or nutritious food to eat.

A healthy biodiversity and functioning ecosystems are essential for human societies:

• About half of the world’s GDP – about USD 44 trillion – is dependent on natural resources, while nature provides at least USD 125 trillion worth of services annually.
• Nature also “underpins all dimensions of human health and contributes to non-material aspects of quality of life”, as indicated by the report, Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2019). As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, the increasing negative impact of human activities on the environment severely threatens human and ecosystem health.