They will help set the agenda for upcoming UN summits on food systems, biodiversity and climate change. This destruction combined with climate change, scientists have warned, could push the world's largest tropical forest irretrievably past a "tipping point" into a savannah-like landscape. Deep-sea miningThe IUCN's 1,400 members overwhelmingly approved a resolution recommending a moratorium on deep sea mining and reform of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a intergovernmental regulatory body. Climate change commission? But climate change is starting to loom large as a threat to wildlife, leading members to vote in a motion for the creation of a climate change commission within the IUCN.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 11, 2021 15:29 UTC