Seeking to Advance Global Biodiversity Protections
March 31, 2022
Representatives from 195 countries—but not the United States—recently met to shape plans aimed at protecting the world’s animal and plant species, especially in light of what a meeting organizer called the “close linkage” between climate change and biodiversity loss. This concern aligns with Maureen Kearney’s observation in Issues that climate change and biodiversity loss are inextricably linked problems. Solving them, she writes, will require “developing a cohesive climate-biodiversity agenda for bold, synergistic, and integrative action.” This agenda must then be “implemented in a similarly integrative manner, by designing policies that are systems-based and mutually reinforcing in beneficial ways.”