This paper aims to help policy makers with a characterization of the intrinsic value of biodiversity and its role as a critical foundation for sustainable development, human health, and well-being. Our objective is to highlight the urgent need to overcome economic, disciplinary, national, cultural, and regional barriers, in order to work out innovative measures to create a sustainable future and prevent the mutual extinction of humans and other species. We emphasize the pervasive neglect paid to the cross-dependency of planetary health, the health of individual human beings and other species. It is critical that social and natural sciences are taken into account as key contributors to forming policies related to biodiversity, conservation, and health management. We are reaching the target date of Nagoya treaty signatories to have accomplished measures to prevent biodiversity loss, providing a unique opportunity for policy makers to make necessary adjustments and refocus targets for the next decade. We propose recommendations for policy makers to explore novel avenues to halt the accelerated global loss of biodiversity. Beyond the critical ecological functions biodiversity performs, its enormous untapped repertoire of natural molecular diversity is needed for solving accelerating global healthcare challenges.

本文旨在帮助政策制定者描述生物多样性的内在价值及其作为可持续发展、人类健康和福祉的重要基础的作用。我们的目标是强调克服经济、学科、国家、文化和区域障碍的迫切需要，以制定创新措施，创造可持续的未来，防止人类和其他物种的相互灭绝。我们强调普遍忽视了对行星健康、人类个体和其他物种的健康的交叉依赖性。将社会和自然科学作为制定与生物多样性、保护和健康管理相关的政策的关键因素，这一点至关重要。我们正在达到名古屋条约签署国完成防止生物多样性丧失的措施的目标日期，这为政策制定者提供了一个独特的机会，以进行必要的调整并重新关注未来十年的目标。我们建议政策制定者探索新的途径来阻止全球生物多样性加速丧失。除了生物多样性发挥的关键生态功能外，还需要其巨大的未开发的自然分子多样性库来解决日益加速的全球医疗保健挑战。