What the CBD Biodiversity Scenarios Report says about Freshwater

Published in May, the 134-page CBD technical report “Biodiversity Scenarios: projections of 21st century change in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services” focuses on longer term projected estimates of biodiversity change .

I was interested to see how freshwater issues are discussed in this report, so I ran it through the ManyEyes Word-tree tool which visualises the context in which the word ‘freshwater; is used. Here is the result

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For me this confirms the strong associations between freshwater, ecosystems, services and biodiversity in international policy.

Paul Jepson