Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change: Understanding the Feedback Loop
On 9th December 2025, the Global Environment Outlook-7 (GEO-7) report released by UNEP warns that human-driven biodiversity loss and land degradation are now actively disrupting the climate system, creating dangerous feedback loops that accelerate ecological and climate damage worldwide.
What is the biodiversity-climate feedback loop?
- The biodiversity-climate feedback loop refers to the two-way interaction between ecosystems and the climate system, where damage to land, forests, soils, and species alters carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles, which in turn worsens climate change and further degrades ecosystems.
- Rather than acting only as carbon sinks, stressed ecosystems can begin amplifying warming, weakening nature’s ability to ....
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