In the run up to the Glasgow climate talks (COP26) and the ongoing UN biodiversity summit, a new report on Tuesday blamed China, the world’s biggest maker and user of coal, cement and steel, for.
Global businesses have called upon heads of state to deliver meaningful action in preventing the destruction of nature, and draft an actionable framework that addresses global biodiversity. This is to ensure that loss of nature does not go far enough than it already has, specifically the mass extinctions of wildlife and collapse of ecosystems. Big businesses warn this could arise risks of "a dead planet".
Global leaders pledge to protect nature at the UN Biodiversity Summit
The world s biodiversity is in a more precarious state than ever before. (Photo: Getty Images)Premium
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“Humanity is waging a war against nature, said the UN Secretary General António Guterres during his opening remarks at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit on 30 September. That is the unalloyed truth, as recent reports on the state of the planet’s biodiversity have borne out. We have also seen this play out in real time, with the annual cataclysmic fires in California, the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic Circle. As world leaders gathered by video conferencing to pledge to protect nature, and look forward to the UN Biodiversity Conference to be held in Kunming, China, in May 2021, the message on the state of the world was quite dire.