Lovelock was dismissive of putting a price on services from ecosystems such as oceans and forests.
Autopoietic entities at even larger levels include ecosystems such as coral reefs, prairies, or ponds.
7. Countries must agree to safeguard carbon sinks and vital ecosystems, such as forests.
Blue carbon refers to carbon dioxide stored in coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, coastal salt marshes and seagrass meadows.
But they are crucial to maintaining regional ecosystems (such as water cycles) and even global ones (for example, carbon sequestration).
3. Make an illustrated poster of different types of ecosystems (such as wetlands, savannahs, arid zones, etc).
Just as ecosystems such as forests, grasslands and coral reefs differ from place to place, so it is with microbiomes.
Despite the growing demand, just 5% of plastics are recycled effectively, while 40% end up in landfill and a third in fragile ecosystems such as the world's oceans.
Nor can they incorporate the damage climate changes presents to these ecosystems, such as ocean acidification, extreme weather and rising sea levels.
There was also vocal support for the renewable energy target, currently under review, and the protection of ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef.
The fire history of large terrestrial ecosystems such as Yellowstone National Park can be obtained from historical records or by determining the ages of the resident trees.
