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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II found that global warming is putting biodiversity and ecosystems at risk of extinction. These findings are in line with the fifth Global Biodiversity Outlook from the CBD and the range of IPBES reports.
UK welcomes confirmation COP15 will go ahead this year, following two-year delay
UK welcomes confirmation COP15 will go ahead this year, following two-year delay
Welcome to the 158th Committee of the Permanent Representatives. My greetings to those of you joining us here in-person at the UN compound, and warm greetings to Member State representatives joining us virtually in a hybrid format.
P. LOWRY/MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN Over the past decade, botanist Pete Lowry has noticed a worrying trend in his field. An expert on the Sciodaphyllum (formerly Schefflera) genus of neotropical plants, he used to have a relatively easy time doing fieldwork abroad, he says. Now, however, he and his colleagues at the Missouri Botanical Garden face a mountain of logistical hurdles to gain permission to work in the various countries they want to visit, let alone bring samples back home with them. For example, although one of Lowry’s study species, S. patulum, extends from southeastern ...