Nexus Report + UPSC?.ToString()?? UPSC?.ToString()+" Current Affairs";

— The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a global group of scientific experts, has released an Assessment Report on the Interlinkages among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health – known as the Nexus Report.
— This is a first-of-a-kind report looking at the interconnections between these multiple crises.
— The group examined five major challenges — climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, and health risks — and found that they were strongly interconnected.
— IPBES was established in 2012 to examine all the existing scientific knowledge on biodiversity and nature to make an assessment of their current state.
— The Nexus report highlighted the strong interlinkages between the five identified global challenges. Its key takeaway is that responses to all these challenges need to be harmonised so that positive actions taken on any one of these do not result in negative impacts on others.
— The report pointed out that more than half of the global GDP — about 58 trillion dollars worth of annual economic activity — was moderately to highly dependent on nature. Deterioration of natural ecosystems, therefore, could directly hurt productivity and adversely impact economic output.
— The Nexus report finds that there has been a 2-6 percent biodiversity decline per decade across all assessed indicators for the last 30-50 years.