"We're doomed if we don't solve climate, and we're doomed if we don't solve biodiversity," Basile van Havre, co-chair of the UN biodiversity negotiations, told AFP.
Experts and activists were hoping UN climate talks would end last week with a prominent mention of biodiversity in the final text. They walked away disappointed.
"We're doomed if we don't solve climate, and we're doomed if we don't solve biodiversity," Basile van Havre, co-chair of the UN biodiversity negotiations, told AFP. " is up to a third of the climate solution. And it is a proven technology," Brian O'Donnell, director of Campaign for Nature, told AFP. He has vowed to halt the rampant deforestation of the Amazon seen under incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and announced during the climate talks plans to create a ministry for indigenous people, custodians of the rainforest.
But the upcoming COP15 meeting in Montreal — tasked with setting out an ambitious plan for humanity's relationship with nature for the coming decades — did not get the encouragement many were hoping for. The United Nations has traditionally treated the climate and biodiversity crises distinctly, each getting their own COP meetings , and each managed by its own institution: climate by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and biodiversity by the CBD.
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