A joint report Thursday by separate UN scientific bodies that look at climate change and biodiversity loss found there are ways to simultaneously attack the two global problems, but some fixes to warming could accelerate extinctions of plants and animals. Policy responses to climate change and biodiversity loss have long been siloed, with different government agencies responsible for each, said co-author Pamela McElwee, a human ecologist at Rutgers University. While some climate solutions can increase species loss, scientists said efforts to curb extinctions don't really harm the climate. Yunne Shin, director of research at French National Research Institute, said the bulk of measures taken to protect biodiversity will also help curb climate change. "Halting biodiversity loss is even harder than phasing out fossil fuel use."

Source: CBC News June 11, 2021 16:18 UTC