A report of several hundred pages was prepared on the future of the world

Some 160 leading international experts from almost 60 countries worked on the IPBES Nexus report for 3 years, in which they sought answers to how the world’s environmental and social crises are interconnected – the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network said in a statement on Tuesday.

The experts pointed out in the report that these crises mutually reinforce each other, so treating them separately can be ineffective or counterproductive.

“The Nexus Report finds that biodiversity is declining at all scales and in all regions, from global to local. This ongoing decline in nature, largely the result of human activity, including climate change, has direct and serious impacts on food security and nutrition, water quality and availability, health and well-being, as well as resilience to climate change and the natural resources that humanity provides,”

– they wrote.

They pointed out that the Nexus Report’s One Health (meaning that the health of people, animals and ecosystems is interconnected) and disease ecology area was also worked on by Gábor Földvári, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of the HUN-REN Ecological Research Center (ÖK ETI), and Zsófia Benedek (HUN-REN KRTK) and Eszter Tormáné Kovács (MATE) from other fields also participated in the research work.

Gábor Földvári drew attention to the report, noting that “the consequences of many infectious and non-communicable diseases are exacerbated by biodiversity loss, unhealthy diets, lack of clean water, pollution and climate change.” In his own research, he also examines how ticks and pathogens can spread more easily under the influence of climate change and urbanization.