Several scientific reports in recent years have highlighted how the world is facing a biodiversity crisis. One million species are threatened with extinction, soils are becoming infertile and water sources are drying up, as described by the United Nations Environment Programme.
In December 2022, the Global Biodiversity Framework was signed in Montreal as the first step towards halting biodiversity loss. This was again highlighted in the concluding statement of COP28 last November, which underlined the urgent need to address “the interlinked crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss”.
This will likely continue to be a hot topic in 2024. To find out more, ESG spoke to Mark Rayan Darmaraj, country director of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Malaysia Programme.
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