Making the most of COP 16 – Biodiversity
The UN defines biodiversity as “the diversity within species, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi.”
The diversity of species keeps the global ecosystem in balance, so we, as humans, can survive, with sufficient food, clean water, medicine and shelter.
Biodiversity is also our strongest natural defence against climate change.
Without the ‘carbon sinks’ from land and ocean ecosystems too much carbon into the atmosphere means an even hotter planet.
And as delegates at the UN COP 16 BIODIVERSITY convention balloons to 23 thousand; Razors Edge Thomas Koutis managed to catch up on the line, from Cali, Colombia, with one crucial delegate.
Guest: KM Reyes, Executive Director for Centre for Sustainability Philippines, and leads young women conservationists, working with First Nations in her homeland.
Image by: KM Reyes while holding workshops with local schools in Palawan
