Microsoft founder Bill Gates met with the Prime Ministers of India, Israel and Bangladesh today and yesterday, during the UN-run climate change conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland.
tight policy at kew of only making claims when they re supported by the science. kew is fundamentally a scientific institution, and the claims we make are based on the best available evidence. 40% of all the world s plants? and that is based on the extent to which natural ecosystems are being degraded. the vast majority of the earth s surface has already been degraded or lost as a result of human activity, so that is based on our understanding of global plant diversity. deforestation, of course, is a huge issue when it comes both to biodiversity and climate change that are clearly inextricably linked now. what efforts. ? again, i mjust struggling to see, practically, what your attempt to be a sort of leader on this issue. what practical things can kew gardens do to address the problem of deforestation? well, i ll give you an example. kew can provide evidence evidence that particular areas are special and merit protection. a good example is the ebo forest in cameroon. it s famous for
kew is fundamentally a scientific institution, and the claims we make are based on the best available evidence. 40% of all the world s plants? and that is based on the extent to which natural ecosystems are being degraded. the vast majority of the earth s surface has already been degraded or lost as a result of human activity, so that is based on our understanding of global plant diversity. deforestation, of course, is a huge issue when it comes both to biodiversity and climate change that are clearly inextricably linked now. what efforts. ? again, i mjust struggling to see, practically, what your attempt to be a sort of leader on this issue. what practical things can kew gardens do to address the problem of deforestation? well, i ll give you an example. kew can provide evidence, evidence that particular areas are special and merit protection. a good example is the ebo forest in cameroon. it s famous for a number of things, including its extraordinary floristic diversity, but it s also
inextricably linked now. what efforts. ? again, i mjust struggling to see, practically, what your attempt to be a sort of leader on this issue. what practical things can kew gardens do to address the problem of deforestation? well, i ll give you an example. kew can provide evidence, evidence that particular areas are special and merit protection. a good example is the ebo forest in cameroon. it s famous for a number of things, including its extraordinary floristic diversity, but it s also the forest where chimps have been filmed using tools to break nuts, for instance. and kew provided the evidence to the cameroonian government that this particular area had an extraordinary number of endemic and endangered plants, and partly based on the evidence submitted by kew, the cameroonian government decided to protect that area from any future logging or degradation. and what s your position on reforestation? cos, again, you speak with the authority of kew behind you. and i note, around the wor