Humanity is at war with nature and on its last chance to reverse the rampant destruction of habitats that will condemn thousands of species to extinction and threaten our own existence.
“With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” UN chief Antonio Guterres told delegates gathered in Montreal for COP15, the United Nations’ biodiversity conference.
The conference kicked off on December 7 and runs through to December 19, during which it is hoped a new biodiversity framework of more than 20 targets will be adopted, the first since targets were agreed in 2010.
