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The EEA's '10 messages for 2010' will highlight one
theme per month until the tenth meeting of the Conference
of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) in October.
The first message on climate change and biodiversity will
be followed by others on themes such as protected areas and
the marine environment.
Message 1: climate change and biodiversity
The variety of life underpins our social and economic wellbeing
and will be increasingly an indispensible resource in the
battle against climate change. However, our consumption and
production patterns are depriving ecosystems of their capacity
to withstand climate change and deliver the services we need
from them. As we understand more about the ways that climate
change is impacting biodiversity, it becomes clear that we
cannot tackle the two crises separately. Their interdependence
requires us to address them together.
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Message 2: protected areas
Protected areas provide a wide range of services in a context
of increasing pressures and a rapidly changing environment.
Europe is the region with the greatest number of protected
areas in the world, but they are relatively small in size.
Europe's Natura 2000 - unique in the world and still young
- and the Emerald network under development, are international
European networks of protected areas that catalyse biodiversity
conservation.
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