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Emma Despland, Professor, Biology Department, Concordia University

To attain global climate and biodiversity goals, we must reclaim nature in our cities

Conserving nature in cities can help protect the biodiversity within them. (Unsplash)

The climate and biodiversity crises we have been experiencing for the past few decades are inseparable. The scientific research presented at the back-to-back international summits on climate and biodiversity held in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt and in Montréal, Canada, respectively, has made this abundantly clear.

Addressing these crises requires real transformative action and commitments — including plans that call for the conservation of 30 per cent of global land and sea areas within the decade — have been made to halt biodiversity loss by 2030. But where do we start implementing these targets?

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