It’s not only about the climate crisis. We also need to talk about what’s happening to the natural world

We need a Paris Agreement of biodiversity, and we need it now

 by Fermin Koop   November 18, 2022

For many years, the climate and the biodiversity crisis have been seen as separate issues, with separate solutions. But in reality, the two are interconnected, and the degradation of one also affects the other. As highlighted this week at the COP27 United Nations climate summit in Egypt, is that there’s no way of limiting global warming to 1.5°C or 2°C without urgently protecting and restoring the natural world.

Climate change is often regarded as a single problem — when in fact it is a complex problem and an accelerator for other problems. In other words, when the climate change crisis started, it also accelerated other crises, like pollution or ecosystem destruction. Similarly, when ecosystems and biodiversity suffer, climate change is exacerbated. So it doesn’t really make much sense to treat one individually, we have to look at these problems holistically.

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