Some approaches to tackling global warming can have unintended knock-on consequences for nature and the protection of biodiversity, say scientists urging a more coordinated effort on these challenges. The IPBES and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in 2021 that a siloed approach risked "actions which, inadvertently, prevent the resolution of one or the other problem, or even …
Even as American politicians uselessly quibble over whether climate change is real and how humanity should address it, the natural world does not need humanity to humansplain to them that the Earth is becoming uninhabitable. According to a recent report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a United Nations body, one million animal and plant species …
With many species on Earth dying, the UN has released a study that was three years in the making. Hidden impacts “We need to recognise that climate change and loss of Nature are equally important, not just for the environment, but as development and economic issues as well,” Watson said. “But our goal is to make sure that governments and …
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