Africa: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Other Global Ills Share Root Causes

9 June 2020
The Conversation Africa (Johannesburg)
analysis By Mary Scholes and Robert (Bob) Scholes

The modern world seems to lurch from one crisis to another. What if that is because the crises have shared underlying causes, and therefore tackling them as if they were independent events is doomed to fail?

The issues of climate change and biodiversity are deeply intertwined. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international treaties charged with solving two of the biggest problems of the 21st century, were both due to hold make-or-break meetings in 2020. COVID-19 - yet another crisis with strong connections to the other two - has forced the meetings to be postponed. The only positive result is that the delay provides an opportunity to better coordinate actions, in order to lead to better outcomes.

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