UN biodiversity agreement a farce

The UN biodiversity summit in the Japanese city of Nagoya came to an end on Saturday with an agreement on the protection of biodiversity that has been celebrated in the press across the world. Unfortunately no one has taken a closer look at their statement, writes the left-liberal daily The Guardian: "If governments had met in Japan to try to save the banks, or the airline companies, they would have sent more senior representatives, their task would have seemed more urgent, and every dot and comma of their agreement would have been checked by hungry journalists. When they meet to consider the gradual collapse of the natural world they send their office cleaners and defer the hard choices for another 10 years, while the media doesn't even notice they have failed to produce a written agreement."

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