How Climate Change Causes Biodiversity Loss and What We Can Do About It

As the climate has heated over the last century, species extinction has rapidly accelerated. However, protecting biodiversity can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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From increased forest fires to rising sea levels, flora, fauna and fungi are all under threat from the effects of human-induced climate change. However, just as the changing climate is causing biodiversity loss, so protecting biodiversity can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change. For example, keeping carbon locked up in peat bogs and seagrasses will slow global heating, and maintaining healthy ecosystems will make them more resilient to climate change.

On the panel are:
Angeline Chen is the Co-Founder of Global Coralition. She holds a Masters degree in International Relations and Affairs from the University of California San Diego.

Tilly Collins is a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London. She publishes regularly on aspects of Urban Ecology, Entomology and Sustainability.

Nicola Davies is an English zoologist and writer. She was one of the original presenters of the BBC children's wildlife programme The Really Wild Show. More recently, she has made her name as a children's author.

Sahana Ghosh is a Contributing Editor with Mongabay India, the India bureau of the global news platform mongabay.com. She switched gears from studying microbiology to practising journalism in 2012 and now reports on biodiversity, climate change, environmental health and gender. She is the coordinating editor for Beyond Protected Areas and Natural Climate Solutions special reporting projects at Mongabay.

The event was be introduced by Zitouni Ould-Dada. Zitouni is currently Deputy Director in the Climate and Environment Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome.

This talk was recorded on 20 July 2021.

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