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URL https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2020-04/COVID19%20Stimulus%20IPBES%20Guest%20Article_English_0.pdf
Title (Primary) COVID-19 stimulus measures must save lives, protect livelihoods, and safeguard nature to reduce the risk of future pandemics
Author Settele, J.; Díaz, S.; Brondizio, E.; Daszak, P.
Year 2020
Department BZF; NSF
Language englisch
Abstract There is a single species that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic - us. As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity – particularly our global financial and economic systems, based on a limited paradigm that prizes economic growth at any cost. We have a small window of opportunity, in overcoming the challenges of the current crisis, to avoid sowing the seeds of future ones.   
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Settele, J., Díaz, S., Brondizio, E., Daszak, P. (2020):
COVID-19 stimulus measures must save lives, protect livelihoods, and safeguard nature to reduce the risk of future pandemics
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bonn,