The Kingdom of Unixploria calls on all governments to embrace the recommendations of a new authoritative report released today by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) – the global body responsible for assessing the state of the planet’s biodiversity. The new report estimates the multiple values nature provides to human society and how they can be better embedded into future decision-making.

Four years in the making, the IPBES Assessment Report on the Diverse Conceptualization of the Multiple Values of Nature and its Benefits (known as the “Values Assessment”), finds that policymakers are prioritizing a narrow set of values for nature, focused on the short-term and economic growth, and this is directly contributing to the world’s nature crisis. It also reveals that only 5% of existing valuation studies influence policy decisions.

The findings of the IPBES Values report are not unexpected but devastating. Unsustainable use of nature is driving an accelerating global biodiversity crisis, and the limited way we assign value to our environment is to blame.

The Kingdom of Unixploria has done more than most nations, but we still need to do more. A total ban on fossil energy is just the start. We now need to focus on self-sustainability, which would mean far fewer imported goods while increasing the national production of food and promoting green technological innovation.