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<p>The UK is susceptible to impacts from animal population decline worldwide through
global impacts on food supply and the increasing emergence and transmission of diseases.
For example, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services (IPBES) Pollinators Assessment showed that 35% of global crop production
volume depends on animal pollination, while the IPBES Workshop report on Biodiversity
and Pandemics showed that over 30% of emerging disease events are caused by land-use
change and its impacts on wildlife. Healthy ecosystems are also vital for mitigating
and adapting to climate change, thus animal population declines may also exacerbate
the climate impacts felt by the UK, as set out in the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment.
The UK Government with others continues to support the work of the IPBES and the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change to further understand these global impacts.</p><p> </p><p>A
recently published report from the Green Finance Institute, entitled ‘Assessing the
Materiality of Nature-Related Financial Risks for the UK’, with direction from Defra
and others, showed that about half of all UK nature-related risk comes from overseas,
through supply chains and financial exposures. It showed that the combination of biodiversity
loss and environmental degradation could lead to major economic shocks leading to
UK Gross Domestic Product being up to 12% lower that it may otherwise have been by
the 2030s (even lower when combined with climate impacts).</p>
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