Living Planet Report 2022

Recently, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released the Living Planet Report 2022. Released every two years, it is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and health of the planet.

• It tracks changes in the relative abundance of wild species populations across the globe.

Recommendations: According to the report, the planet is experiencing double emergencies of human-induced climate change and biodiversity loss, threatening the well-being of current and future generations. It recommends biodiversity loss and climate crisis should be dealt with as one instead of two different issues as they are intertwined.

• A nature-positive future needs transformative, game-changing shifts in how we produce, how we consume, how we govern and what we finance.
• An all-inclusive collective approach towards a more sustainable path must be adopted. It will ensure that the costs and benefits from our actions are socially just and equitably shared.