Biodiversity took a front seat at the Cop27 climate summit on Thursday as conservationists, activists and indigenous leaders underlined the crucial need to protect nature in order to ward off the most damaging impacts of climate change.
“Up to a third of the solution to the climate crisis can be done through protecting and conserving nature,” Brian O’Donnell, director of the NGO Campaign for Nature, told RFI in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.
