Our cities: Ecological deserts or biodiverse hotspots?
Preserving biodiversity is necessary for mitigating climate disruption and even preventing pandemics, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recently concluded. In a new report, Sweco shows how urban design can make our cities part of the solution.Since 1970 close to 70 per cent of wild animals, birds and fish have vanished, according to the WWF Living Planet Report 2020. According to the UN’s own Global Biodiversity Outlook, not one of its 20 objectives set in 2010 to limit the damage inflicted on the natural world by 2020 have been fully met. Despite the stark ecological outlook, a new
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