Newsroom op-ed: Government sidesteps world talks to save species

by | Nov 5, 2024 | News | 0 comments

The world’s largest biodiversity summit, COP16, concluded on Friday in Colombia with ministerial negotiations, but where was the New Zealand government?

In an article published by Newsroom, Dr Pauline Herbst (School of Social Sciences) and Professor Cate Macinnis-Ng (School of Biological Sciences) comment on the current government’s position on biodiversity, the state of New Zealand’s biodiversity, and the fundamental links between climate change and biodiversity.

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Representatives from COP16 on Biodiversity
Image: The representatives of the High-Level Segment of the COP16 on Biodiversity, which closed with the presentation of the declarations achieved during the last week in different discussion spaces in both the Green Zone and the Blue Zone. Image credit: CC. The 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

This article reflects the opinion of the authors and not necessarily the views of Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.

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