ADP CSR Report 2020

GROUPE ADP

1.3

Protecting biodiversity

CONTEXT

The 6 th mass extinction has started: In 2019, the experts of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warned that 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with disappearance in the coming decades. A 2021 report, coordinated by the professor of economics at the University of Cambridge, Partha Dasgupta, at the request of the British government, points out that the natural capital per capita (the benefits that humans obtain from services provided by nature) has fallen by 40% worldwide since 1992. The ecological functions provided by biodiversity, which are essential to life on earth, such as CO 2 absorption and pollination, are therefore at risk. The transport sector has a strong impact: soil artificialisation, climate change and the development of invasive alien species are 3 of the top 5 biodiversity erosion factors, according to IPBES. The collapse of biodiversity is also, in the long term, a threat to the maintenance of activity (decrease in nature tourism, pandemics, etc.).

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