Pssst! Humans Could Save Endangered Species for a Fraction of Soft Drink Costs

treehugger.com 14 Oct '12, 4pm

Pssst! Humans Could Save Endangered Species for a Fraction of Soft Drink Costs

Ahead of next week's meeting of the parties on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad, India , a paper has been published putting some real numbers to the question: just how much financing do we need to meet our promises about biodiversity? Under the CBD, governments around the globe have committed to halting human-caused extinctions and protecting wildlife environments by 2020. The newest commitments were made in 2010, on the heels of the failure of previous good intentions. The current commitments appear doomed as well, unless someone can tell governments what this will cost, and hold them to their wallets as well as their words. Study contributor H. Martin Schaefer, of the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg identifies the key problem: They left open the question of how to finance this. Therefore, no one knows how much it will cost. Schae...

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