Many, many organisations and individuals have blinkers on when considering biodiversity and climate change and parcel these twin problems into separate silos. This is a mistake and a recent report showing the the Paris Agreement could help save many species from extinction demonstrates this.
In many respects this is a no-brainer. Think about the Great Barrier Reef, for instance. Increasing temperatures can kill coral faster than it can be restored. When this happens we say goodbye to much of the rich life that depends on the reef - and a goodly slice of Australia's tourism industry.
But there are more subtle reasons for thinking about both threats together. Again, to pick just one example, the push for biofuels, while mitigating climate change, is very obviously harmful to biodiversity. We must stop land clearance, not increase it.
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