Une intervention de Raphaël Billé dans le cadre d'une conférence ("One atmosphere: Making the connections - Air polluton, climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity") organisée par : European Federation of Clean Air and Environmental Protection Associations, International Union of Air pollution Prevention Associations.
Présentation de la session [en anglais] :
"Humankind depends fundamentally on the goods and services provided by nature, for food, clean water and building materials, for example. In many important cases, the quality and continuity of these goods and services has been shown to depend on biodiversity. For example, pollination by a range of creatures, notably bees, is crucial to many important agricultural crops. Recent concern about the threats to biodiversity from human activity is therefore reflected in a concern for the continuity of crucial ecosystem services.
Although the most obvious threats to biodiversity and, in consequence ecosystems services, come from direct human action including land use change and agriculture, there are also indirect threats from environmental pollution. Air pollution, along and in interaction with climate change (see session 1), plays a part in this and it is the purpose of this session to share information on the routes by which air pollution threatens biodiversity and ecosystems, the relative importance of air pollution impacts and the range of possible solutions.
This session will provide a review of current understanding of the interactions between air quality and the biosphere and explore the routes towards an increased integration of co-benefits objectives in concerned policies."
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