Biodiversity and Us: The Emerging Extinction Event of the 2020s

We know we are in the midst of a public health crisis. But we are also in the painful grip of another crisis: global biodiversity loss is one of the signature phenomena of the Anthropocene, an era when humankind’s impact on natural systems has become determinative. How do we know that biodiversity is in crisis, and how could this be related to COVID-19 and future pandemics? As a co-chair of a ground-breaking assessment conducted for an intergovernmental organization involving more than 70 authors from upwards of 30 countries, Dr. Peter Stoett will discuss recent assessment and workshop conclusions and some potential solutions to this severe threat to humanity and the natural environment.

This event was held on January 18, 2021

Speaker bio

Dr. Peter Stoett has been Dean of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University since 2017. Previously, he was the Director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre at Concordia University. He works with the United Nations on several fronts and is presently co-chairing a global assessment conducted by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.