We must restore nature to avoid global catastrophe, warns biodiversity summit president
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Just cutting carbon emissions will not prevent climate breakdown, says Susana Muhamad before Cop16 in Colombia
Humanity risks catastrophic global heating if it focuses only on decarbonisation at the expense of restoring the natural world, Colombia’s environment minister has said in the lead-up to the world’s key nature summit later this year.
Susana Muhamad, who will be president of the UN biodiversity Cop16 summit in Cali in October, said that a singular focus on cutting carbon emissions while failing to restore and protect natural ecosystems would be “dangerous for humanity” and risk societal collapse.
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