MPs launch probe into biodiversity protection as wildlife declines
- by Trevor Loveday
- Jul 19, 2020
- 1 min read
MPs have issued a call for evidence for an inquiry into the protection and enhancement of biodiversity and harnessing nature to combat climate change.
Introducing its inquiry, the Environmental Audit Committee warned “biodiversity is continuing to decline faster now than at any time in human history. The UK has seen a 13% decline in average species’ abundance and 15% of species within the UK are threatened with extinction.”
The committee is inviting written submissions on the following issues:
the state of biodiversity:
evaluating measures to conserve and enhance biodiversity:
economics and biodiversity: and
pairing nature-based solutions to climate change with biodiversity:
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