COP15: Real work on hard targets gets underway at UN biodiversity conference
Some of the disputed text concerns Indigenous people.
Others want to ensure that areas being conserved actually contribute to saving species, promoting ecosystem function, protecting against floods or wildfires or storing carbon.“I would argue we need to protect ourselves against all those things. We can’t pick and choose.”‘Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction’: UN secretary-general cautions during COP15 opening
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