The world needs to live up to promises made on biodiversity. Here’s how

Mar 2, 2018

Keiko Hiramoto from Tokyo harvests buckwheat during a permaculture workshop in Hokuto, 150 km (93 miles) west of Tokyo October 23, 2010. Food Forest Club, a workshop organised by non-profit organisation Social Concierge, is aimed at promoting a recycling-based lifestyle and preserving biodiversity through experiencing the organic ways of living. Negotiators from over 190 countries are gathered in Nagoya, Japan for a United Nations meeting to discuss ways to fight rising extinctions of plants and animals from pollution, climate change and habitat loss. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS SOCIETY AGRICULTURE) - GM1E6AO04PE01

Sustainable farming is seen as one solution to tackle biodiversity loss. Image: REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Cristiana Pasca Palmer

Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity

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