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Linkages between Biodiversity Conservation,
Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation
Hanoi, 22. May 2007
Prof. Dr. Manfred Niekisch University of
Greifswald
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BIO FUEL ?
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FAO 2004 7 of the 10 economically most
important marine fish species (30 of gobal
catch) are fully exploited or overexploited.
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Resources are exhausted
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Subsidizing the Great Depletion

• US30 billion annual subsidy (1995-2005)
• High Seas Bottom Trawling (annually)
• 600m Landed catch value
• 152m Subsidy (25 of landed value)
• 60m Profit (10 of landed value)

Are we mad?!?
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Sustainable Development
Social
Economic
Environmental
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Sustainable Development
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Why does biodiversity matter?

• Food
• Ecosystem Services (air, water, recreation)
• Creating domestic species
• Agriculture (agro-biodiversity)
• Spiritual Reasons, Religions
• Medicine
• Cosmetics
• Intrinsic Values
• Basis of Life on Earth
• and and and

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How do we get there?

• Economic assessment of the loss of biodiversity
  (Para-Stern-Report)
• Analysis/multiplication of success stories
• Communication campaigns
• Technology Transfer North-South
• Knowledge Transfer South-North
• Better science
• Development cooperation focus on resource
  oriented (long term) projects

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BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

• Protected Areas
• Species Protection
• Ecological Corridors
• Land Use Planing
• Sustainable Use of Resources
• Participation

POVERTY ALLEVIATION
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HIV-Aids Nutrition, Health Care Illiteracy
Urban Slums
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BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
CLIMATE

• Protected Areas
• Species Protection
• Ecological Corridors
• Land Use Planing
• Sustainable Use of Resources
• Participation

POVERTY ALLEVIATION
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HIV-Aids Nutrition, Health Care Illiteracy
Urban Slums
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Means
Knowledge
Power
Motivation