Flavio Affinito
Biodiversity and ecosystem services scientist and policy consultant serving as Technical Consultant at UNDP and Scientific and Technical Consultant at UN Convention on Biological Diversity, based in Montreal.
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Aug 10, 2026
Clive FoxGUEST
And it's very difficult at the moment to recover those systems because we need that space to produce food.
Flavio AffinitoGUEST
Yeah, I think that's a good opening of what it means from the scientific perspective and how we count species.
Flavio AffinitoGUEST
But a lot of the – I think the policy and the mainstream global kind of conversation on the biodiversity crisis is the knock-on effect of this essentially decline of species in both numbers of species but also abundance.
Flavio AffinitoGUEST
There's some more or less well-established links when it comes to the relationship between the species that make the biodiversity of the world and things like the food we eat there, we breathe.
Flavio AffinitoGUEST
But there is a pretty strong link in a lot of cases between human quality of life and the ecosystems that we live in and operate in.
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