UN biodiversity meet wraps up, report due Monday

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Diplomats and scientists from 132 nations wrapped up six days of negotiations in Paris Saturday over the wording of a landmark report on the dire ...

PARIS: Diplomats and scientists from 132 nations wrapped up six days of negotiations in Paris Saturday over the wording of a landmark report on the dire state of Nature and its impact on humanity, a UN official told AFP.

The report is likely to reveal that up to one million of Earth's estimated eight million species face extinction, many within decades. The draft reports also details the ways in which humanity's growing footprint and appetites have deeply compromised Earth's capacity to renew resources upon which civilisation depends, beginning with fresh water, breathable air, productive soil and the natural pollination of food crops.

 

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